Thursday’s flurry of outage worries was just the beginning of what one law professor cautioned as impending threats on infrastructure and national security.
“The main concern that I’m seeing is these cyberattacks continue to increase, and the government is just going to try and pass the buck,” NetChoice Vice President, general counsel and internet law professor Carl Szabo said on “FOX & Friends” Friday.
“Less than 0.05% of cyberattacks get prosecuted. That means 99%, 99% of cyberattacks go un-prosecuted. So the cyberattacks are going to continue,” he added, “and somebody is dropping the ball. And in this case, it’s the government.”
Early Thursday morning, AT&T service suffered a nationwide outage most prominently impacting Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Miami service areas. A U.S. defense official told FOX News on Thursday that there was “no indication it was a cyberattack.”
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