Vikram Kumar:

Since 2013, 650 million new physical objects have come online.

Adam Caudill:

People look at these things and see them as nothing more than storage devices. They don't realize there's a reprogrammable computer in their hands.

Rick Robinson:

Vulnerabilities are inevitable. The best way to identify and correct them is to start by actively looking for them.

James Comey:

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

Michael Riley:

While the hack was successfully disrupted, it revealed how vulnerable financial exchanges -- as well as banks, chemical refineries, water plants, and electric utilities -- are to digital assault.

One official who experienced the event firsthand says he thought the attack would change everything, that it would force the U.S. to get serious about preparing for a new era of conflict by computer.

He was wrong.