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The Pentagon said Tuesday that it would consider all options if the United States were hit by a cyber-attack as it develops the first military guidelines for the age of Internet warfare.

President Barack Obama's administration has been formalizing rules on cyberspace amid growing concern about the reach of hackers. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin said it repelled a major cyber-assault a week ago.

The White House on May 16 unveiled an international strategy statement on cyber-security which said the United States "will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country."

"We reserve the right to use all necessary means -- diplomatic, informational, military, and economic -- as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests," the strategy statement said.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said Tuesday that the White House policy did not rule out a military response to a cyber-attack.

"A response to a cyber incident or attack on the US would not necessarily be a cyber-response," Lapan told reporters. "All appropriate options would be on the table if we were attacked, be it cyber."

Lapan said that the Pentagon was drawing up an accompanying cyber defense strategy which would be ready in two to three weeks.

The Wall Street Journal, citing three officials who said they had seen the document, reported Tuesday that the strategy would classify major cyber-attacks as acts of war, paving the way for possible military retaliation.

The newspaper said that the strategy was intended in part as a warning to foes that may try to sabotage the US electricity grid, subways or pipelines.

"If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks," it quoted a military official as saying.

The newspaper said the Pentagon would likely decide whether to respond militarily to cyber-attacks based on "equivalence" -- whether the attack was comparable in damage to a conventional military strike.

Such a decision would also depend on whether the precise source of the attack could be determined.

The US military suffered its worst cyber-attack in 2008. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn said that a malicious flash drive -- likely from a foreign spy agency -- spread and commandeered computers at US Central Command, which runs the war in Afghanistan.

The attack served as a wakeup call, with the Pentagon setting up a Cyber Command and working up the doctrine for a new type of conflict.

In cyber-warfare, aggressors are often mysterious and hence would not fear immediate retaliation -- a key difference from traditional warfare, in which the fear of one's own destruction is considered a deterrent.

While stepping up defenses, some believe the United States may also be pursuing cyber war. Iran has accused the United States and Israel of last year launching Stuxnet, a worm that reportedly wreaked havoc on computers in the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear program.

The United States and Israel both declined to comment on Stuxnet.

A study released Tuesday by the Center for a New American Society identified the United States, Britain, France, Israel, Russia and China as the leaders in cyber-offense, with Moscow and Beijing viewing cyber-attacks as an attractive option in the event of a major conflict.

But while sophisticated attacks take resources, the study noted that the barriers to entering cyberspace are "extraordinarily low."

"To launch a cyber-attack today, all a person needs is a computer, which costs less than $400 in the United States, an Internet connection and limited technical knowhow," it said.

Joseph Nye, the Harvard University professor and theoretician of power, said in a paper for the report that "it makes little sense to speak of dominance in cyberspace as in sea power or air power."

"If anything, dependence on complex cyber systems for support of military and economic activities creates new vulnerabilities in large states that can be exploited by non-state actors," he wrote.

(c) 2011 AFP
 
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Pentagon Says It Will Respond To Cyber Attacks With Military Force
Grace Wyler | May 31, 2011, 6:13 PM
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The Pentagon is in the final stages of drafting its first cyber warfare strategy, which considers cyber attacks an act of war and allows the U.S. to respond with traditional military force, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The strategy, parts of which will be made public next month, underscores the military's realization that it needs a framework for dealing with computer sabotage from another country. As military and civilian institutions grow more dependent on the Internet, these attacks pose an increasingly significant security threat to U.S. nuclear reactors, subway systems and other essential infrastructure.

The cyber security plan is also intended to send a message to potential enemies about the consequences of launching an attack against U.S. computer systems.

The new strategy is likely to ignite debate over how the Pentagon should deal with computer attacks. Many in the Pentagon believe that retaliation should be triggered by the amount of actual or attempted damage caused by the attack.

The WSJ report comes just days after the U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin said its information systems network had been the target of a "significant and tenacious" computer attack. No sensitive data was compromised, the company said in a statement.

Similar incidents - including recent attacks on the Pentagon's computer systems and the Stuxnet computer worm attack of Iran's nuclear program - have demonstrated the urgency with which the U.S. needs to address its cyber security plan.
Pentagon Says It Will Respond To Cyber Attacks With Military Force
 
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Nice move . Its high time to take on the government sponsored netisen propagandists and cyber attackers .

It will also help curbing of stealing documents from military and copy paste it later claiming their own.

Robbers and stealers will have to be taken down for the better of the world.
 
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US needs to get a grip on these state-backed cyber terrorists. What makes these people think they can do what they want without cocnequences? There's no difference between these people and terrorists trained by Pakistan.

Again Pakistan:hitwall:
The two you told have a 500 yrs difference between them(not protecting terrorists)
Most of the cyber crimes have a reason i-e financial or done by youth
 
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are actually tools for the U.S. intelligence community.

Speaking to Russian news site RT in an interview published yesterday, Assange was especially critical of the world's top social network. He reportedly said that the information Facebook houses is a potential boon for the U.S. government if it tries to build up a dossier on users.

"Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented," Assange said in the interview, which was videotaped and published on the site. "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. intelligence."
Assange: Facebook is an 'appalling spy machine' | The Digital Home - CNET News
 
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US needs to get a grip on these state-backed cyber terrorists. What makes these people think they can do what they want without cocnequences? There's no difference between these people and terrorists trained by Pakistan.

For you information those terrorist might resides in Pakistan.........They were trained by Pakistan against Russia when you were also calling them "Mujahdinns" because it was your interest..........and now you are calling them Terroriet coz they are against your interest.............But for now in current situation those who attacking civilians and innocent peoples must be eliminated..........also they are fully funnded by RAW, MOSAD and your country's orgainsations.
 
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bluff no one, paper tiger, such a notice is only copied to small nations...

dare the US wage a war against china or russia? oh, no, they are the disclaimer part of the note, LOL.
 
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bluff no one, paper tiger, such a notice is only copied to small nations...

dare the US wage a war against china or russia? oh, no, they are the disclaimer part of the note, LOL.

Paper tiger? Seriously? Do you know how many countries US bosses around? :lol:
 
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Paper tiger? Seriously? Do you know how many countries US bosses around? :lol:

Yet they can't even touch North Korea or Iran despite barking about it for a decade.

US only attacks countries that can't even feebly fight back; if a country starts fighting back and maybe wins a few victories their "soldiers" start crying for peace and running away to Canada.
 
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bluff no one, paper tiger, such a notice is only copied to small nations...

dare the US wage a war against china or russia? oh, no, they are the disclaimer part of the note, LOL.

US doesn’t need to use its military might…its economic and diplomatic muscle are enough to bring China and Russia down
 
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US doesn’t need to use its military might…its economic and diplomatic muscle are enough to bring China and Russia down

Yeah. What is the US going to do? Sanction China? Never mind that Japan and South Korea will cry first, but who will blink first, the wall street regime suffering hyperinflation or Chinese government with a convenient excuse? Unemployment never caused revolutions, only hyperinflation. Sanction Russia? Russia's already sanctioned by the US, if they cut off oil trade Europe will cry first.
 
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Yeah. What is the US going to do? Sanction China? Never mind that Japan and South Korea will cry first, but who will blink first, the wall street regime suffering hyperinflation or Chinese government with a convenient excuse? Unemployment never caused revolutions, only hyperinflation. Sanction Russia? Russia's already sanctioned by the US, if they cut off oil trade Europe will cry first.

Why do you Chinese are so sensitive, whenever US comes, you jump to some conclusions without thinking…even now, US is very powerful and it can have its own ways if it demands…the blatant violation of Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan sovereignty by US are some examples….how many countries do you think really protested against US for such acts?
 
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If at all that was the case bro, US would have done it long back.

Every act has cost and benefit component to it…costs of antagonizing Russia or China or ever for that matter India outweighs the benefits
 
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Yet they can't even touch North Korea or Iran despite barking about it for a decade.
Same as saying China cannot touch Taiwan despite yapping about the island for decades. Or that China cannot handle a bunch of monks and India who harbors the monks' leader.

US only attacks countries that can't even feebly fight back; if a country starts fighting back and maybe wins a few victories their "soldiers" start crying for peace and running away to Canada.
Spoken by a country that has 1/10th the combat experience of the American military and the most recent scuffle against a smaller country filled with 'inferior' Asians -- Viet Nam -- China got spanked. Good thing the PLA does not publish information about PTSD among its soldiers. All those only child sons spoiled by their parents went crying and running back to their families.
 
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