West Point students, from left, Lieut. Colonel Robert Fanelli and cadets Nathan Larsen, Mark Evinger (seated) and Marc Abbott participate in National Security Agency cyberwar games. Michael Falco / The New York Times / ReduxCyber Command Investment Ensures Hackers Targeting U.S. Face Retribution -- Washington Times
Pentagon budget documents detail growing military commitment to cyberwarfare
In the shadows of the Sony hacking incident and North Korea’s massive Internet outage, the Pentagon has quietly built a multibillion-dollar cyberwarfare capability and trained its commanders to integrate these weapons into their battlefield plans.
U.S. Cyber Command was officially stood up in 2010, based at Fort Meade in the Maryland suburbs of the nation’s capital, consolidating intelligence and cyberwarfare capabilities of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines under one house. Soon, billions of dollars were being invested in the concept that cyberattackers targeting America should be prepared to sustain their own damage.
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My Comment: It makes you wonder if this is why North Korea lost its internet today .... North Korea's Internet Network Has Just Collapsed.
2 comments:
Umm, Suxnet dude?
The US Military/intelligence complex has been wageing cyberterrorism against and and all, since 2006 at least.
NSA intel/corporate and Ddos actions date back to ITT and phone networks in the 50's.
Even if this is the work of Black Hat hacksters, the Norks are going to take it the wrong way, and they have a bad habit of turning offense into blood.
Interesting read by the way:
http://fabiusmaximus.com/2014/12/20/rebuttal-holes-fbi-north-korea-sony-attack-74873/
Reading Fabius is always on my must read. But thanks for the link Jay.
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