Pentagon: $100 million on cyberattack cleanup

Pentagon spends over $100 million on cyberattack cleanup

The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months cleaning up after Internet attacks and network issues, military leaders said on Tuesday.

"The important thing is that we recognize that we are under assault from the least sophisticated--what I would say the bored teenager--all the way up to the sophisticated nation-state, with some petty criminal elements sandwiched in between," Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of U.S. Strategic Command, told reporters at a cyberspace conference in Omaha, Neb., as reported by CBS News.

( The head of US Strategic Command placed the highest threat with the "sophisticated nation-state";

that is not the biggest threat, MAD, Mutual Assured Desgtruction, with a Nation state will hold them in check.,

Hit US we hit you. The biggest threat is the NON-nation state, MAD won't work with them, our paradigm Intel

places the RBN as the bioggest threat, and probally the brains behind conflicker. G )

Neither he nor Army Brigadier Gen. John Davis, deputy commander for network operations, would say how much of the estimated $100 million was spent cleaning up from viruses compared with outside attacks and inadvertent security problems due to U.S. Department of Defense employees. However, they did say that spending money to shore up the networks to prevent attacks and breaches would be better than paying to clean up after an incident.

The Defense Department was forced to take up to 1,500 computers offline last year because of a cyberattack, and it banned the use of external removable storage devices because of their ability to spread viruses.

The news comes amid internal government squabbles over which department would be best to manage the nation's cybersecurity programs and in the middle of a cybersecurity review ordered by President Obama.

Last week, legislation was introduced that would create a cybersecurity adviser who reports directly to the president and who would have the authority to disconnect federal or critical infrastructure networks from the Internet if they were deemed to be at risk of attack.

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We have had some experience with cyber weapons, and emphatize with the Pentagon.

Gerald

Tactical Internet Systems analyst.

And now read this:

WASHINGTON -- Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.

The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.

"The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," said a senior intelligence official. "So have the Russians."

The espionage appeared pervasive across the U.S. and doesn't target a particular company or region, said a former Department of Homeland Security official. "There are intrusions, and they are growing," the former official said, referring to electrical systems. "There were a lot last year.

Many of the intrusions were detected not by the companies in charge of the infrastructure but by U.S. intelligence agencies, officials said. Intelligence officials worry about cyber attackers taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or financial networks via the Internet.

Authorities investigating the intrusions have found software tools left behind that could be used to destroy infrastructure components, the senior intelligence official said. He added, "If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on."

Officials said water, sewage and other infrastructure systems also were at risk.

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Not finished yet, 

You have heard of the Smart grid .

That means programable.

The penetration feels quite through.

Look out the other window, Conflicker,

35 million bots todate.

There is a "Go Around" that stops all of them

at the next step.

NSA must realize this.

Were Cranking this thru Paradigm Intel engine.

OSINT says its wide open, defenses don't work

And currently there is no offensive capability.

And the Lobbyist are running the Super Power.

Heady times....

Gerald

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