The U.S. Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these with physical attacks, according to a senior U.S. general.

Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER) »www.afcyber.af.mil/ , a U.S. military unit set up in September 2007 to fight in cyberspace, is due to become fully operational in the autumn under the aegis of the U.S. Eighth Air Force.

"Offensive cyberattacks in network warfare make kinetic attacks more effective, (for example) if we take out an adversary's integrated defense systems or weapons systems," Elder said. "This is exploiting cyber to achieve our objectives."

Other causes for military concern include possible supply-chain vulnerabilities, where vulnerabilities are introduced into chipsets during manufacturing that an adversary can then exploit, and electronics vulnerabilities.

said by Mchart :

This is pretty old news dude.

said by Mchart :

This is pretty old news dude.

said by TK Junk Mail :



U.S. reveals plans to hit back at cyberthreats
By Tom Espiner
Special to CNET News.com Published: April 4, 2008 9:18 AM PDT

said by longstreet :

Hmm, interesting.

I would say any country that ties their critical systems to the Internet so foreign powers can touch them is foolish.

I highly doubt either China (they are the enemy? - ok) or the United States has such systems exposed.

The infrastructure the U.S. military uses to both launch and defend against cyberattacks runs through the public Internet system. Military networks such as the Global Information Grid are linked to U.S. government and critical national infrastructure systems, which in turn are linked to the public Internet. Adversary systems are subverted by the U.S. military through public channels--however, this also leaves the U.S. military open to attack through the same channels, said Elder.

"The infrastructure on which the Air Force depends is controlled by both military and commercial entities and is vulnerable to attacks and manipulation," Elder said.

said by longstreet :

To attack the public internet, you have to be on the public internet.

My point is :

[Critical] systems are NOT on the public internet

said by longstreet :

a public webserver is not a [Critical] system

said by Mchart :

OK. You just keep telling yourself that. Obviously I don't know what i'm talking about. I'm just a lowly tech controller.

said by longstreet :

Are you saying the military puts their critical systems on the public internet?