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While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.

The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.