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US Air Force to take to the ether
The rest of the article is about the recent Chinese attacks on the unclassifed Pentagon network and German government computers, the Russian attack on Estonian government networks, and limitations on BlackBerry use. But this bit piqued my interestThe US Air Force will soon create a cyber war-fighting command aimed at improving defensive and offensive capabilities to counter such asymmetric threats. We want to ensure that we can operate freely in the domain, says Major General Charles Ickes, another senior Air Force official involved with cyberspace issues. On the other hand . . . it is seen by everybody in the defence department as a war-fighting domain and you must have offensive capability. Gregory Garcia, the assistant secretary for cyber security at the department of Homeland Security, says the number of cyber incidents reported to the departments computer readiness team so far this year is 35,000. That compares to 4,100 for the whole of 2005. The Defence Science Board, an independent Pentagon advisory group, will soon publish a study on non-conventional military challenges that will examine cyber threats. Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-04 |
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