Cyberwar games at the United States Military Academy.(Photo: Michael Falco for The New York Times)
The Hill: US launches aggressive cyberwar campaign against ISIS
The U.S. military has launched an aggressive cyberwar campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that is targeting the terrorist group’s ability to communicate and spread propaganda online, The Associated Press reported Friday.
Anonymous officials told the AP that U.S. Cyber Command, a relatively new division that began operating in 2010, is testing a range of operations intended to disrupt ISIS’s online activities.
The attacks include efforts to prevent the group from spreading propaganda, recruiting members through social media and conducting financial or logistical transactions, according to these officials.
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Update: DoD launches aggressive cyberwar against IS (AP)
WNU Editor: They should have waged this war a year or two ago.
Yes they mean business in their cammies with two sucking fingers, two pointing fingers and one with hands on hips. Call me unimpressed because....since when are soldiers supposed to think, as opposed to following orders?
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