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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
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NRT-0465 Most Pentagon Cyberattackers Lone Hackers:
The preponderance of cyberattacks against the US military still come from individual hackers,
not nation-states, a senior defense official said. The deputy assistant secretary for information
and identity assurance at the Pentagon spoke this week to a federal computer security conference
in Washington. His comments on challenges facing the Defense Department in the Information Age
were reported by Government Technology News. Despite the rising threat of attempted intrusions
and other attacks from potential nation-state adversaires, he told the FOSE conference, it was hard
to ascertain the origin of most attacks against the Department of Defense, which he called the
"No. 1 target" among US government agencies. Nonetheless, individual "hackers are still the
preponderance of network issues seen day to day," he said.
(UPI 04APR08)