The Pentagon Gets Ready For Cyber Warfare



New York Times: Pentagon Announces New Strategy for Cyberwarfare

SAN FRANCISCO — The Pentagon on Thursday took a major step designed to instill a measure of fear in potential cyberadversaries, releasing a new strategy that for the first time explicitly discusses the circumstances under which cyberweapons could be used against an attacker, and naming the countries it says present the greatest threat: China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

The policy, announced in a speech at Stanford University by Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, represents the fourth time in four months that the Obama administration has named suspected hackers or announced new strategies designed to raise the cost of cyberattacks.

Update: New Pentagon Strategy Warns of Cyberwar Capabilities -- AP

WNU Editor: I always thought the NSA would end up being responsible for cyber warfare .... but apparently the Pentagon wants to be involved.