Secret Service Director Joe Clancy speaks during the kick off Cyber Storm V in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. More than 1,100 cybersecurity professionals across the country and from Wyoming, Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia, Maine, Nevada, Oklahoma and Oregon, are participating in the Homeland Security Department's simulation to test their ability to deal with a cyberattack, said Touhill, the agency’s deputy assistant secretary for Cybersecurity Operations and Programs at DHS. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)

Cybersecurity pros participate in mock attack against U.S. systems

(Cyberwar.news) The U.S. Secret Service hosted a three-day exercise last week run by the Department of Homeland Security involving dozens of cybersecurity experts who gathered in an underground control room for a drill aimed at staving off the kinds of cyber attacks that have hampered health networks and retail giants recently. As reported by The Read More