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Stories about: cyber warfare

U.S. Military Developing Hacking-for-Dummies Cyber-Warfare Device U.S. Defense Department officials were so impressed with the level of coordination between ground military ops and cyberattacks against strategical targets during the recent conflicts, that they are now looking for ways to weaponize hacking. Aviation Week glanced at such a device and reports that it is being designed... 25 May 2009 09:19 GMT Analysts: US Should Create Digital Warfare Task Force Speaking at a hearing in front of the House Armed Services subcommittee, the leader of the Pentagon's new Cyber Command, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, who is also the head of the US National Security Agency (NSA), said that the country needed to build up a digital warfare task force as soon as possible, in order to ... 5 May 2009 09:34 GMT Kyrgyzstan Booted Off the Internet The entire Internet infrastructure of the democratic Republic of Kyrgyzstan has been severely crippled by DDoS attacks originating in Russia. The intense attacks targeting the major ISPs in the country have been sustained for over a week, report researchers from information security firm SecureWorks.The attacks which... 29 January 2009 05:31 GMT