$100 million is a rounding error to them. On 4/7/09, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10214416-83.html > > Pentagon spends over $100 million on cyberattack cleanup > by Elinor Mills > > "The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months > cleaning up after Internet attacks and network issues, military leaders > said on Tuesday. > > "The important thing is that we recognize that we are under assault from > the least sophisticated--what I would say the bored teenager--all the > way up to the sophisticated nation-state, with some petty criminal > elements sandwiched in between," Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of > U.S. Strategic Command, told reporters at a cyberspace conference in > Omaha, Neb., as reported by CBS News. > > Neither he nor Army Brigadier Gen. John Davis, deputy commander for > network operations, would say how much of the estimated $100 million was > spent cleaning up from viruses compared with outside attacks and > inadvertent security problems due to U.S. Department of Defense > employees. However, they did say that spending money to shore up the > networks to prevent attacks and breaches would be better than paying to > clean up after an incident. > > ..." > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
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