Forget the Ashley Madison or Sony hacks – a crippling cyberattack is imminent in the US

Instead of mobilising a national defence against cyberattacks, we want a toaster that communicates with the washing machine over the internetComputer experts have long warned about a catastrophic cyber-attack in the US, a sort of Web 3.0 version of 9/11 that would wreak enormous damage throughout the country. Like most Americans, I shrugged. With all of the enormous resources the country enjoys, those warnings seemed like the rantings of a digital Chicken Little.Oddly enough, the revelations of