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Subject:    [ISN] Pentagon Announces New Strategy for Cyberwarfare
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2015-04-24 11:35:44
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/politics/pentagon-announces-new-cyberwarfare-strategy.html

By DAVID E. SANGER
The New York Times
APRIL 23, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — The Pentagon on Thursday took a major step designed to 
instill a measure of fear in potential cyberadversaries, releasing a new 
strategy that for the first time explicitly discusses the circumstances 
under which cyberweapons could be used against an attacker, and naming the 
countries it says present the greatest threat: China, Russia, Iran and 
North Korea.

The policy, announced in a speech at Stanford University by Defense 
Secretary Ashton B. Carter, represents the fourth time in four months that 
the Obama administration has named suspected hackers or announced new 
strategies designed to raise the cost of cyberattacks.

A previous strategy, released in 2011, was less detailed and only alluded 
to the new arsenal of cyberweapons that the Pentagon was deploying. That 
strategy talked vaguely about adversaries, naming none.

But President Obama's decision to publicly name North Korea's leaders for 
ordering the largest destructive attack on an American target, the 
announcement of new sanctions against state-sponsored and criminal 
hackers, and the indictment of five members of the People's Liberation 
Army for attacking American corporate targets all reflect a sea change in 
administration policy.

[...]



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