Howard Schmidt, White House Cyber Czar: 'There Is No Cyberwar'

White House Cyber Czar: 'There Is No Cyberwar'
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Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.

'There is no cyberwar,' Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.

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