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NSA spends more tax dollars on hacking than on defense: Snowden "
American whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed... the NSA spends more taxpayer money on cyber-attacking other countries... than it does on defending the country. He made the statement in...

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Computer hackers and cyber criminals are carrying out attacks against businesses and nation states because they believe there's "little price to pay" for stealing sensitive data.

That's according to Admiral Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and head of United States Cyber Command, who was speaking at a cyber security conference at Fordham University in New York.

His comments come a month after a massive cyber attack against Sony, which the US believes was carried out by North Korea - although there are a number of security experts who disagree with that claim.

The current number of cyber attacks represents "one of the biggest transfers of intellectual knowledge that we have ever seen," said Rogers, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The NSA chief warned that a different cyber security strategy needs to be implemented if the trend of worsening cyber attacks is to be reversed.

"What we've seen in the last six to nine months in general... trends are going in the wrong direction," Rogers said. "Doing more of the same and expecting different results, my military experience tells me, is not a particularly effective strategy."

The US government wants organisations to work more closely with it by reporting incidents of cyber attacks more promptly. However, with Edward Snowden's NSA surveillance revelations still fresh in the memory, there's still corporate distrust of government security programmes.

Speaking in an interview with US broadcaster PBS, Snowden inferred that the US could have itself to blame for being the victim hacking attempts, arguing that attacks originated from US authorities - such as the Stuxnet programme against Iran in 2011 - have created a bitterness against the country and its infrastructure.

The whistleblower also suggested that the NSA should concentrate on defending the US against attacks, rather than hacking into the networks of other nations and their leaders.

"So the way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland," said Snowden.

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The director of the National Security Agency thinks the recent cyberattack on Sony Pictures could set a precedent for future attacks aimed at the United States.

In an exclusive interview with FOXBusiness.coms Firewall, Admiral Michael Rogers -- who is also the head of U.S. Cyber Command -- voiced his concern over the possibility that aggressors could utilize cyber means to accomplish other goals.

What if next time its a nation-state, a group, an individual who doesnt like some other product, who doesnt like a policy, or who doesnt agree with an action that the United States or private entities within the United States take, Rogers told Firewall. This starts us down a very destabilizing road if were not careful.

Admiral Rogers echoed remarks by the White House and the FBI saying that the perpetrator in the Sony case was, indeed, North Korea.

The Sony Pictures attack was one of many cybersecurity-related issues discussed with Admiral Rogers, who sat down with Firewall before giving a keynote address at Fordham Universitys annual International Conference on Cyber Security in New York on Thursday.

The NSA chief also elaborated on testimony he gave before the House Intelligence Committee in November concerning the potential vulnerability of critical U.S. infrastructure to Chinese hackers and other nation-states.

I did that very publicly, in part, because I want to make sure everyone understands this is very real, this is nothing theoretical, Rogers said.

Admiral Rogers described the breadth of threats that the United States face in the cyber domain. He drove home the fact that significant hack attacks not only emanate from technically advanced nations but also from criminal organizations and rogue groups, calling the cyber problem "the great equalizer."

Following Wednesdays terror attack in Paris, France, Admiral Rogers also expressed concern over the growing threat of lone wolf terror making its way to the U.S. homeland. That certainly increases the challenge from an intelligence perspective, Rogers said.

You can watch Firewalls entire interview with Admiral Michael Rogers by clicking the video thumbnails at the top of the page.

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