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British MPs Warn of 'Fatal' Cyber Warfare Strategy

Posted by Unknown on from the knows-a-guy-good-with-computers dept.

judgecorp writes "British Members of Parliament have warned that the UK's cyber warfare strategy is getting it wrong. According to a defense committee report, the country's IT security forces are inadequately prepared for a cyber attack, rely too heavily on inadequately protected systems, and do not sufficiently appreciate the difficulty of attributing the source of an attack."

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  1. Re:Apparently, someone just told them about proxie by ark1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they were so happy when they successfully traced the latest attack to user "goatse" at fbi.gov.

    You mean Goatse was able to expose their gaping hole?

  2. Re:Also "attribution" does not help when by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd have thought corporate espionage was more the main enemy in any sort of "cyber warfare" rather than terrorism.
     
    Though I'm sure the Chinese have already stolen everything they need from our primitive network.