.”These banks are among the best in the country when it comes to cyber security, but even they are having trouble keeping up with attacks that have the sophistication and the level of resources that a nation-state entity like Iran can devote to them,” he said.
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, told NBC News Wednesday that the FBI and “other law enforcement agencies are following up aggressively to identify the responsible parties” of the attacks. “Our computer networks are the subject of daily assault by hostile hackers, both state sponsored and independent, who hope to obtain confidential information for economic gain, to test our defenses, or simply because they can,” Schiff said.
Rogers, who is pushing for the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, H.R.624, says that the federal government is “trying to share cyber threat information with these banks to help them get ahead of these attacks. He said, “needs to pass bipartisan information sharing legislation to knock down those barriers, so that American companies can protect their computer networks and the valuable intellectual property and personal customer information that resides on them.”
Doug Johnson, the American Bankers Association’s vice president of risk management policy, told NBC News that the attacks “have been intensifying since October and we expect them to continue.
Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/cyberattacks-banks-signal-urgent-need-security-bill-lawmakers-say-1C9202532