Scary stuff from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, Science & Technology:

Amit Yoran, CEO of security firm NetWitness and a former senior official in the Department of Homeland Security, responded that the U.S. has been “experiencing a 9/11 in cyberattacks” for a number of  years. “Because there is no visible catastrophic outcome, we lie in bed at night asleep without realizing how much damage is being done,” said Yoran.

One of the witnesses providing testimony, Oracle's Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson, said we should lay down the cyberlaw with the rest of the globe:

Davidson pointed to the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 warning to European governments not to interference in affairs on U.S. soil, lest we take it as an act of aggression. She called for something similar with regard to U.S. “cyberturf.”

“The advantages of invoking a Monroe-like Doctrine in cyberspace would be to put the world on notice that the US has cyberturf, and that we will defend our turf,” she said. “We need to do both -- now.”