WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s No. 2 official says that spending on cyber programs and counter-terrorism operations is likely to remain stable or possibly rise, even as the Defense Department looks for more than $450 billion in cuts over the next 10 years. View full post on cyber terrorism – Yahoo!…
Pentagon expands cyberwarfare defenses to key military contractors
Intrusions into defense networks are now close to 30 per cent of the Pentagon’s Cyber Crime Center’s workload View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Pentagon to help defend cyber networks
WASHINGTON — As hackers and hostile nations launch increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks against U.S. defense contractors, the Pentagon is extending a pilot program to help protect its prime suppliers. That program could possibly serve as a model for other government agencies. It is being evaluated by the Department of Homeland Security, as…
Will: At Pentagon, the specter of sequester
WASHINGTON — It must take some getting used to. Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, knows the Pentagon is under 24-hour cyber siege. There constantly are thousands of what he calls “exploitive” cyber probes from nations “pulsing the system,” trying to devise tools to disrupt the control systems without which…
Will: Pentagon rattled by budget battle
It must take some getting used to. Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, knows the Pentagon is under 24-hour cyber siege. There constantly are thousands of what he calls “exploitive” cyber probes from nations “pulsing the system,” trying to devise tools to disrupt the control systems without which complex societies…