And affected 300,000 users in 150 countries. Members of the science, space, and Technology Subcommittee looked at ways to strengthen the governments cybersecurity posture. This is just under two hours. We will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing entitled, bolstering the Cyber Security Lessons Learned from wannacry. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. I want to welcome the witnesses here today. And i would also welcome chairman smith, oversight subcommittee, Ranking Member beyer, research and deck Technology Committee chairman abraham. Research and technology Ranking Member lipinski. Members of the subcommittees, our expert witnesses and members of the audience. Cybersecurity, a content we hear mentioned frequently, especially in this period of rapidly emerging threats, is an everevolving concept. Maintaining an effective cybersecurity posture requir
Maintaining an effective cyber tourity posture is important remain vigilant. Too often when we hear about the importance of Cyber Security we are left without concrete steps to take to ensure our positions position against emerging threats. One of the goals today is to learn about tangible measures the government can take to its i. T. Systems to defend against new and emerging threats including novel and sophisticated rent somewhere threats. The specific focus will be the wannacry ran somewhere attack. It was last month in a worldwide attack that impacted nearly every country in the world. Although the concept of ransom ware is not new, the type of rent somewhere employed by wannacry was novel. It made people pay to get access to documents. It signaled a new type of wo rming. It would spread more rapidly with each new infection. In light of the method of attack, Cyber Security experts including those we will hear from today have expressed concerns that the virus is only a preview of a
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All of this. As we continue our look at san joses literary culture, we hear from other john markoff talking about the history between women and computers and his book machines of loving grace. The name of the book is machines of loving grace, the quest for Common Ground between humans and robots. I got into this book. There is a specific reason and broad reason that i had been reporting on ai and robotics for the New York Times for decades and it just became an increasingly hot topic. The whole world became interested in robotics and ai and they were having an impact they hadnt had before. Until it didnt fail and began to succeed and specifically i had written in an earlier book about the prehistory of the personal computer, stuff that happened in stanford between 1965, 1975 leading to the first computer industry and modern internet but i noticed at the dawn of the era of internet thing computing 1962 there were two labs created equidistant from stanford, one was started by john mccart
The name of the book is machines of loving grace. The quencher, graham between humans and robots. I got into this book, i guess theres a specific reason and a broad reason. I have been reporting on ai and robotics in Silicon Valley for the new times for a decade, and it just became an increasingly hot topic, the whole world became interested in robotics and ai and him having in fact which they had had before. The field had always failed. Angela didnt feel and begin to succeed. And then specifically i had written an earlier book which was about the prehistory of the personal computer, stuff that happened right around stanford between 651975 lead to the rest of the personal computer industry and the modern internet. I noticed right at the dawn of the era of Internet International computing there were two labs that were created, equidistant from stanford. One was started by man by the name of john mccarthy, and wellknown Computer Scientist and yet coined the term Artificial Intelligence i