Pentagon announces cyberspace operating strategy

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Pentagon has announced the Cyberspace strategy to avoid the hackers attack on computer networks.

15 July,2011 11:07 am

The US Defense Department unveiled a new US strategy for protecting military computer networks from hackers, designating cyberspace as an operational domain US forces will be trained to defend.Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said that new tools capable of disrupting and destroying critical networks, or causing physical damage mark a strategic shift in the effort to curtail the threat of cyber attacks.Defense Department networks are probed millions of times a day and penetrations have caused the loss of thousands of files.Lynn said in one intrusion in March, 24,000 files at a defense company were accessed, and over the past decade terabytes of data have been taken from military and defense company computers by foreign intruders.