Computer-based attacks emerge as threat of future, general says

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Bill Gertz
The Washington Times
Sept 14, 2011

The general in charge of U.S. cyberwarfare forces said Tuesday that future computer-based combat likely will involve electronic strikes that cause widespread power outages and even physical destruction of thousand-ton machines.

Army Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command, also said that massive losses of private and public data in recent years to computer criminals and spies represent the largest theft in history.

Threats posed by cyber-attacks on computer networks and the Internet are escalating from large-scale theft of data and strikes designed to disrupt computer operations to more lethal attacks that destroy entire systems and physical equipment.

“That’s our concern about what’s coming in cyberspace – a destructive element,” Gen. Alexander, who is also the director of the National Security Agency, the electronic spying agency, said in a speech at a conference on cyberwarfare.

Gen. Alexander said two cases illustrate what could happen in an attack.

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2 Responses to “Computer-based attacks emerge as threat of future, general says”

  1. HACKED…(the journalism)
    where’s ohm’s law now?
    zero amp fuse? try it…

  2. anyway…
    there’s a big vote coming up…
    it’s about Palestinian Statehood…
    from 1948——————-6 days left…
    THAT’s news…
    ahhh
    (what were you saying?)

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