Political Quotes

“I would like to ask the majority leader if he is aware of the statement we had on the floor of the Senate by Senator Whitehouse, who has been one of the leaders in putting together the cyber security bill relative to an incident at the Chamber of Commerce? I would like to read it, if I may, very briefly. And I quote Senator Whitehouse from page S5720 of the July 31 Congressional Record: Even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been the completely unwitting victim of a long-term and extensive cyber intrusion. Just last year the Wall Street Journal reported that a group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber, gained access to everything stored in its systems, including information about 3 million members, and they remained on the U.S. Chamber's network for at least 6 months and possibly more than a year. The Chamber only learned of the break-in when the FBI told the group that servers in China were stealing their information. Even after the Chamber was notified and increased its cyber security, the article stated that the Chamber continued to experience suspicious activity, including a ``thermostat at a townhouse the Chamber owns on Capitol Hill . . . [that communicated] with an Internet address in China . . . and . . . a printer used by the Chamber executives spontaneously . . . printing pages with Chinese characters. As Senator Whitehouse has said: These are the people we are supposed to listen to about cyber security.…”