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Pentagon Official Warns of Risk of Cyber Attacks
washingtonpost ^ | March 17, 2009;

Posted on 03/17/2009 4:28:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono

he head of the Pentagon's Strategic Command warned Congress today that the United States is vulnerable to cyberattacks "across the spectrum" and that more needs to be done to defend against the potential of online strikes, which could "potentially threaten not only our military networks, but also our critical national networks."

But Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton made clear to a House Armed Services subcommittee that he has not been asked to defend most government Web sites nor the commercial and public infrastructure networks whose destruction could cripple the nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cyberattacks

1 posted on 03/17/2009 4:28:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

I’m not worried about this, Obama and his DC pets will fix everything.


2 posted on 03/17/2009 4:30:58 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
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To: JoeProBono

Time must be having troubles because I see a lot of cover pages copied lately. Both for time and newsweek.

Only time I’ve actually seen the covers for the last several years since I don’t buy those rags.


3 posted on 03/17/2009 4:31:40 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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