US: Defending against cyber threats

October 6, 2011

The U.S. military suffered perhaps its first deeply damaging cyber attack three years
ago. A flash drive with a malicious computer code was inserted into a laptop at a
U.S. military base in the Middle East. The surreptitious worm infiltrated a U.S. Central
Command (CENTCOM) computer network, collected classified and unclassified data,
and shunted it to the servers of a foreign intelligence agency.
That attack, reportedly Russian in origin, was the realization of “our worst fear...

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