In wake of recent domestic terror incidents in both the Garden State and across the nation, the New Jersey Director of Homeland Security addressed this and other issues at the Ocean County Mayors' Association's monthly meeting last week in Toms River.
The U.S. charged seven hackers linked to the Iranian government with executing large-scale cyberattacks on dozens of banks as well as a small dam outside New York City -- intrusions that law enforcement officials said reached into America's infrastructure and disrupted the nation's financial system.
The Obama administration has announced new efforts to fight the growing theft of American trade secrets. It's a broad but relatively restrained response to a rapidly emerging global problem that was brought into sharp focus this week by fresh evidence linking cyberstealing to China's military.