Bono Mack wants cyberattack briefing

Rep Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) -- Chairman of the House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade -- requested a briefing from security firm McAfee about a massive cyberattack the firm identified last week.

In a letter to Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee’s vice president of threat research, Rep Bono Mack asked a series of questions, including if the government and private sector can effectively prevent similar attacks and whether public disclosure would help or harm industry efforts to combat cybercrime. According to McAfee, the attack focused on intellectual property and national secrets. Rep Bono Mack asked McAfee whether hackers consider intellectual property and national security information a greater target than personal consumer information. She also asked McAfee to clarify whether the attack affected any consumer information.