Cyber Warfare
Thank goodness the Pentagon is now talking about unleashing offensive cyber moves versus defensive moves in the 21st century cyber warfare that is only increasing in intensity. Rueters reports that the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held a first-of-a-kind conference where cyber warfare was discussed and how Russia and China were stealing American trade secrets with minimal cost to them but at great cost to the United States.
The Pentagon is ramping up cyber moves to launch keyboard attacks against opponents that hack into systems related from military to civilian including cars with onboard computers that could cause vehicles to lose brakes, steering and other critical functions that could cause injury and death. Regina Dugan, director of DARPA, said at the conference the U.S. may use kinetic as well as cyber attacks if necessary; kinetic is military lingo for physical warfare, bombs, missiles, tanks, etc.
Stuxnet, it appears, has brought on new malware concerns that infiltrates hardware versus traditional ways using software to infiltrate and taint operating systems. DARPA officials reported to the conference that the military’s current layered-security was no match to the cyber attacks.
A survey from DARPA, according to the Reuters report, is that during the last 20 years, the amount of code to protect the U.S. infrastructure is at 10 million lines while the malicious code infiltrating the U.S. systems is at approximately 125 lines on average.
PCMag reports that the country most responsible for U.S. intrusions is China, according to their sources. The report also talks about a reported attack on U.S. satellites by Chinese hackers, a computer virus that may have infected American military drones recording keystrokes and Operation Shady RAT, a series of cyber attacks over five years that may have penetrated several U.S. government agencies, the U.N., foreign governments and several technology companies and defense contractors, according to security firm McAfee.
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