U.S. not prepared to fight cyber threats

The U.S. is not prepared to counter a cyber attack, according to the military and intelligence officials in the country. Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence in February 2010 he opened his studio in the annual security threat, urges Congress to malicious cyber-crime is unprecedented in the increase, and the country’s efforts to combat attacks are not very strong, as reported by the NPR April 6, 2010. The threats are part of phishing, botnets, denial of service, IP spoofing, attacks, man-in-the-middle, distributed denial of service, and the introduction of other types of malicious code. Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, published in February (2010) reported that the department’s computer networks every day infiltrate a number of sources, ranging from small rooms and managed groups of individuals in a few countries in the world. According to one defense official high-level tracking cyber-threats, saw the Pentagon, in 2008 and 2009, a plethora of attacks, which now average around 5000 per day. Experts explain the possible threat to the United States. UU. said that unless the U.S. is no other nation on earth more dependent on their computers. From now on, data networks supporting the U.S. electricity supply, banking and transportation systems, military operations and telecommunications. Put another way, the entire U.S. economy is based on activities in cyberspace, and this dependence makes it uniquely vulnerable to hackers advanced. ‘S economic collapse of the country almost without their computer networks. In addition, these experts also that Internet crime is becoming a full-fledged business and in most cases associated with vicious organized crime syndicates. In addition, officials criminals are increasingly in this work. Therefore, government establishments are recommended to assess their risk positions. However, it is much harder to put out a cyber attack. Named as attributing to the problem “by security experts, this is one of the most dangerous challenges. American intelligence and defense agencies will probably be difficult to determine exactly where the attack occurred and for which credit go. The problem of allocation is more complicated. The experts concluded by saying that because it is very difficult to detect attacks on an executor, a direct retaliation not be possible.