US prepares for cyber war

[Растаман]

The United States began preparations for cyber war - the US Air Force command has announced a tender for the purchase of a large number of various malicious programs that are designed to destroy computer networks and control centers of a potential enemy. And DARPA (Pentagon Advanced Research and Development Department) has announced a tender for an interactive map with which it will be possible to monitor the degree of protection of the potential enemy’s military infrastructure. The Russian Foreign Ministry calls this the "first round of the cyber weapons race."



Interestingly, until recently, official Washington categorically denied having plans to develop offensive cyber weapons; last year’s Pentagon Cyber Strategy said that US actions in this area would be exclusively defensive. However, in December, Congress allocated money for the development of offensive cyber weapons, and now confirmation of the upcoming cyber attack has appeared.

Tenders announced by the US Air Force and DARPA, the Pentagon’s Advanced Research and Development Office, are published on the US procurement website. From them it is clear that the Air Force command has begun preparing the CWOC program - Cyberspace Warfare Operations Capabilities ("The possibilities of conducting military operations in cyberspace") and is ready to spend about $ 10 million on various malicious programs.

Documents on the first tender state that the Pentagon should be able to “destroy, weaken, violate, mislead, distort and capture” the computer networks and control centers of the alleged adversary, as well as “establish temporary control over cyberspace” with the help of “disable , including using DDoS attacks, infection and hacking of operating systems, servers and other network devices of the enemy. " The possibility of using cyber weapons in the course of conventional military operations is also allowed.

All these programs should go into service with the US Air Force in a year.



The amount of the second tender for the Plan X program announced by DARPA is much more - $ 110 million.

With the help of it, the Pentagon administration is going to conduct large-scale studies of the cyber capabilities of potential adversaries and create a unique Digital battlefield map on which the enemy’s military infrastructure objects should be displayed online, as well as the degree of their protection against possible cyber attacks from the United States. It is reported that the first closed meeting on the implementation of Plan X will be held at DARPA on September 27th.

The United States is in no hurry to disclose information about earlier cyber attacks on targets of other countries, even despite the recently discovered fact that the Stuxnet virus, which significantly slowed Iran’s nuclear program, was created by order of the White House.

Russia, which currently does not have its own military cyber units (at least officially), insistently but unsuccessfully demands a ban on the development and use of cyber weapons. The information received about the upcoming US cyber attacks in Moscow was apprehended with caution: "The US essentially initiated the first round of the cyber weapons race itself. The consequences of such actions are impossible to predict today."

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thanks, Nail.
Curious.

 

[Андрей Захаров]

Thanks for the info)))

 

[Частный детектив. Timofey. Челябинск.]

Thank you for the article! Let's not lose our vigilance!)

 

[Роберт]

You need to create your own operating system only in Russian. And that’s all.

 

[Симферополь]

The Kalashnikov assault rifle is not afraid of ddos attacks ...

 

[Детектив-Молдова]

Based on what the Pentagon announced a year ago, this was to be expected.

The Pentagon admitted its vulnerability to cyber attacks
army, technology, science
07/15/2011 09:42
The Pentagon admitted vulnerability of its own information networks. The military believes that the threat is growing every day, as the enemy creates more and more complex and dangerous tools for breaking into networks.
As the Pentagon deputy head William Lynn clarified, the number of foreign operations against systems in the American public and private sectors is increasing, both in quantitative terms and in their sophistication.
"The Department of Defense networks are probed several million times a day, and successful penetration attempts result in the loss of thousands of American documents and documents of US allies and industrial partners," he added.
Lynn made a similar statement on Thursday, July 14th. At a meeting in Washington, he said that in March of this year, the Pentagon’s databases underwent a powerful cyber attack, which resulted in the largest theft of government information in the history of the agency - 24 thousand files, the Associated Press reports.
The US military suggests that foreign states are behind the hacking of Internet systems.
To avoid a repetition of this in the future, the Pentagon has prepared a new US cybersecurity strategy for 2011, which should be a response to the sharp increase in cyber attacks on the servers of US government agencies.
According to the deputy minister, the strategy is based on five principles: recognition of cyberspace as an independent and priority area from which the threat emanates, the use of “active defense” tactics, the Pentagon’s assistance and support from the Ministry of Internal Security in protecting critical and infrastructure networks, and the organization of collective protection against cyberthreats together with allies and international partners, as well as the suppression of the "advantages" of cyberterrorists who commit attacks via the Internet.
“Low access barriers (to networks), as well as the widespread availability of tools for hacking networks, lead to the fact that even a small group of hackers can cause significant damage to both the Department of Defense and the national and economic security of the United States. “Small technologies” can cause disproportionate damage, and our opponents do not need expensive weapons to create a threat to national security, ”the document says.
https://fed.sibnovosti.ru/science/155477 ... beratakami

 

[Краев Евгений Леонидович]

Thank you, very interesting material! This is to be expected, time and technology do not stand still!

 

[Магат]

The conclusion suggests itself. In such a war, the one who does not have the Internet will win, and only local networks and weapons work with the help of a sledgehammer and a strong word. Cyber weapons do not act on them.