WASHINGTON D.C.: A steady stream of low-level cyber attacks poses the most likely danger to the United States rather than a potential digital “armageddon,” United States intelligence director James Clapper said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

US officials for years have warned of a possible “cyber Pearl Harbor” that could shut down financial networks, poison water supplies or switch off power grids.

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