{"id":241759,"date":"2010-01-28T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:05:26","slug":"u-s-military-prepares-for-cyber-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/241759","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Prepares for Cyber War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surfdaddy Orca writes in h+ magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ever wonder how exactly the U.S. military would fight a cyber war? In August 2009, the U.S. Air Force activated its new cyberspace combat unit, the 24th Air Force, to \u201cprovide combat-ready forces<\/a> trained and equipped to conduct sustained cyber operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s commanded by former Minuteman missile and satellite-jamming specialist Major General Richard Webber. (And under his command are two wings, the 688th Information Operations Wing and the 67th Network Warfare Wing, plus a combat communications units.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, to counter the threat of cyber warfare, DARPA is still deploying the National Cyber Range, a test bed of networked computers to test countermeasures against \u201ccyberwar\u201d. (According to one report, it provides \u201ca virtual network world . to be populated by mirror computers and inhabited by myriad software sim-people \u2018replicants,\u2019 and used as a firing range in which to develop the art of cyber warfare.\u201d)<\/p>\n

And the Obama<\/a> administration has even added a military cybersecurity coordinator to the National Security team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read More: h+ magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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