"Cyber-threats are non on the horizon, they are upon us," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who is introducing the bill, said inward a controversy on Thursday.
The bipartisan Cybersecurity Enhancement Act would fund to a greater extent than cybersecurity research, awareness too education.
"Businesses too investors must trust that their investments are secure. We cannot let safety breaches to undermine our trust inward the the States economy," said Menendez, from New Jersey.
Hackers working inward mainland People's Republic of China broke into figurer systems of 5 multinational crude too gas companies to pocket bidding plans too other critical information, figurer safety trouble solid McAfee Inc (MFE.N) said on Thursday.
Nasdaq OMX, operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market, said over the weekend that it had establish "suspicious files" on its the States figurer servers too determined that hackers could accept affected i of its Internet-based client applications.
Nasdaq OMX said at that spot was no bear witness that the hackers obtained client data or that whatever of the company's trading platforms were compromised.
Menendez too other lawmakers accept urged regulators to await into the incidents too study dorsum to Congress.
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