Over the years, there have been private warnings issued to China, notably after an attack on the computer systems used by the office of the defense secretary two years ago.
Among other things, she said, his 2011 attack on the computer system of the Arizona Department of Public Safety had disrupted the state's sex offender website and Arizona's Amber Alert System, which broadcasts messages about abducted children.
A concerted attack on the computers of any one of our key economic sectors or governmental agencies could have catastrophic affects.
Last fall, when I learned of the Stuxnet attack on the computers running Iran's nuclear program, I briefly thought that here, finally, was the real thing: a cyberweapon purpose-built by one state actor to strategically interfere with the business of another.
From his first months in office, Mr. Obama ordered sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment plants, according to participants in the program.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday criticized a Pentagon report that explicitly accused China's military of staging attacks on the computer systems of the American government and military contractors.
HONG KONG — China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday criticized a Pentagon report that explicitly accused China's military of staging attacks on the computer systems of the American government and military contractors.
Today, Ms. Hathaway is the primary author of White House cyberstrategy and has been traveling the country talking in vague terms about recent, increasingly bold attacks on the computer networks that keep the country running.
"From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program," the article, by David Sanger, says.
WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.
Witness U.S. attempts to impede the operation of the centrifuges in Iran and its acknowledged attacks on the computers of ISIS.
