[pchelpers] Article:Flashpoint: The Cyber Challenge: Cyber attacks are growing in number and sophistication

By Peter Brookes
Published: March 13, 2008

It is no secret that modern warfare is increasingly dependent on
advanced computers — and no country’s armed forces are more reliant on
the digital age for information superiority than those of the U.S. This
is both the American military’s greatest strength — and potentially its
greatest weakness. 

Today, the Pentagon uses more than 5 million computers on 100,000
networks at as many as 1,500 sites in at least 65 countries worldwide.
Not surprisingly, potential adversaries have taken note of America’s
slavish dependence on information technology. 

The Defense Department suffers tens of thousands of computer network
attacks annually. Although the department is understandably cautious
about revealing the success of these attacks, some of the cyber assaults
allegedly reduced the military’s operational capabilities. The Pentagon
reportedly logged more than 79,000 attempted intrusions in 2005 — the
most recent publicly available data. About 1,300 of the attacks
supposedly were successful, including the reported penetration of
computers linked to the Army’s 101st and 82nd Airborne and 4th Infantry
divisions. Foreign cyberspace operations are a threat that is here and
now — and cannot be ignored.

more here:
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=1386912%3E%3CFONT

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