For almost all of human history, man has waged war on land and at sea. Air and space emerged as potential battlefields only in the past few generations. Now, the danger of cyberwarfare rivals that of traditional war. The advent of more destructive technologies — and of their inevitable prolife...
via Armed Forces Press Service A new pilot program in which the Defense Department shares classified threat intelligence with defense contractors or their commercial Internet service providers is showing promise in increasing their cyber defenses and preventing enemy intrusions into sensitive govern...
via American Forces Press Service Officials expect to release the Defense Department’s first cyber strategy July 14, a Pentagon spokesman said today. Marine Corps Col. Dave Lapan told reporters that because the release will be an unclassified version of the strategy, it will not be greatly det...
via Government Computer News The National Security Agency, looking to protect another front of the cyber battlefield, is offering its own scanning tools to protect e-mail and other digital communications for major defense contractors, the Washington Post reports. NSA uses sophisticated data sets to ...
via American Forces Press Service The world is at a crossroads in the development of threats in the cyber realm, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said here today. More destructive attack capabilities are being developed but haven’t yet been used, Lynn told participants in the Cente...
via US Department of Defense WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 — White House officials released an international cyberstrategy here today that will help to build a “coalition of nations [with a] mutual interest in securing cyberspace,” Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said. The ...
“The Obama administration has adopted new procedures for using the Defense Department’s vast array of cyberwarfare capabilities in case of an attack on vital computer networks inside the United States, delicately navigating historic rules that ......