[LINK] CERT May get New "Tools" to combat Hackers... With any luck

[Marghanita da Cruz]

...and....
> NATO is increasing pressure on its member states to beef up their cyber defenses and to take more aggressive action against Internet cyber attackers, according to an internal memo from NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen obtained by SPIEGEL.
> 
> The document, entitled "Concept on NATO's Cyber Defence," warns that the "scale and sophistication of cyber attacks against NATO's own networks and against Allies' critical infrastructure are steadily increasing" and notes that the threat has evolved from one of "mainly espionage and exploitation ... to wide-scale disruption." ...
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,764714,00.html#ref=rss>

Tom Koltai wrote:
> In the tea leaves I see... Kinect mounted Quadracopters guiding hacker
> nullifying EMP producing missiles...
> 
> 
> http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/06/01/Pentagon-Cyberattacks-deemed-a
> cts-of-war/UPI-17821306915200/
> Pentagon: Cyberattacks deemed acts of war
> Published: June 1, 2011 at 4:00 AM
> 
> WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Cyberattacks may be deemed acts of war,
> giving Washington a peremptory right to retaliate against hackers with
> conventional military strikes, the Pentagon says.
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