Be an Army hacker: This top secret unit wants you Army Cyber Command is looking for computer-savvy troops to turn into crack cyberwarriors. Rapid, substantial growth inside and outside of the command is coming as demand for cyberwarfare skills — both offensive and defensive — become a greater focus of the nation’s security strategy. For soldiers, that means opportunity. One projection has 3,000 uniform and civilian positions dedicated to Army cyber over the next four to five years, according to an Army official close to the effort. Precise numbers are unavailable, in part because the size of some of…
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No suspects have been nailed down, but it appears that someone with a West Point bias hacked into the U.S. Naval Academy’s e-mail server and sent a mass message in support of Army’s inevitable victory. Bloomberg posted the full text: “Vice Admiral Michael H. Miller Dec 5 to goarmysinknavy, AllUSNA, USCC, BTD Greetings, In preparation for the humiliating defeat Army will be dealing to us in the near future, I have some guidance to pass down. First: when we stage for march-on, we need to clean up our act. The internet has us pegged as dirty slobs– this year, we…
Iran’s latest attempts to bring its nuclear power plants online reads something like a Tom Clancy novel. Parts are coming in from a defiant Russia. A key scientist – a specialist in nuclear isotope separation – was killed today by bomb-wielding motorcyclists. And more than 30,000 computers in the system were crippled late last week by a computer worm called Stuxnet, which experts say was calibrated to destroy uranium-enrichment centrifuges by sending them spinning out of control. Iran blames everything on the West and Israel. No one has taken responsibility for any of the attacks. But everyone should play close…
