Cybersecurity

Homeland Security Chairman: We're in the Fight of Our Digital Lives

The chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, Republican Michael McCaul, didn't mince words to describe threats to the country's cyber-security during a keynote here.

"To be brutally honest, we are in the fight of our digital lives, and we are not winning," McCaul said. "I get briefed every week, and it's clear our adversaries from Russia and China and nation-states are stealing our country's secrets and our intellectual properties, while terrorists are crowd-sourcing the killing of innocent people. The phone in your pocket is the new battle space."