U.S. getting cyber-robbed "every single day," Rogers says

(CBS News) Alleging attacks on the United States "every single day," Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., is set to introduce a cyber security bill "as early as this week," the House Intelligence Committee chairman said today on "Face the Nation."

"We're getting robbed every single day," Rogers said during a panel discussion on the country's growing cyber security threat. "We have, as the U.S. government, set up lawn chairs, told the burglars where the silver is - in the bottom drawer - and opened the case of beer and watched them do it."

Rogers said the scope of vulnerabilities spans "personal identities to social security numbers to money from banks to intellectual property - the blueprints for jobs in the next generation with nation states like China." Attackers, he continued, are looking at "shutting down our financial services or finding other ways to destroy material in companies that won't allow them to function on a day-to-day basis. ...We've seen that recently with Iran."

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Along with ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., Rogers plans to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which before its passage in the House last spring the White House threated to veto over concerns about privacy protection. The bill proposes allowing the government to share classified information about cyber threats so companies can protect themselves from attacks.

"It's very simple: Share information," Rogers said. "Share cyber threat information. The senior leadership in the intelligence community said that they think we can stop 90 percent of our problems just by sharing classified cyber threat information." He estimated "95 percent of our networks here in the United States, private sector networks, are incredibly vulnerable."

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