U.S. Military Remains on Heightened Cyber Alert

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via UPI.

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The U.S. military remains on heightened cyber-alert as the holiday season
approaches, following at least one intrusion by suspected Chinese military
hackers.

The Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations, a part of U.S.
Strategic Command, raised the U.S. military's global cyber-alert level, or
"Information Condition," from InfoCon 5 to InfoCon 4 on Nov. 17, and had no
plans to lower it, Strategic Command Spokeswoman Capt. Caroline Wellman
told United Press International.

"We don't discuss specific details of InfoCon levels, nor why they are
raised or lowered," Wellman said, adding only that they were adjusted from
time to time, in part "depending upon world-wide social and political
events and activities."

The heightened alert came the day after the decision of the Navy Cyber
Defense Operations Command to take the computer network at the Naval War
College in Newport, R.I., offline following an intrusion.

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More:
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061212-013419-9900r

Note: Looks like Bill Gertz was right. Background:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/11/network-attack-disables-us-naval-war.h
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- - ferg

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