Mini-Me: Pentagon Plan X versus Skywiper/Flame

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Pentagon Plan X

The Pentagon is turning to the private sector, universities and even computer game companies as part of an ambitious effort to develop technologies to improve its cyberwarfare capabilities, launch effective attacks and withstand the likely retaliation.

The previously unreported effort, which its authors have dubbed Plan X, marks a new phase in the nation’s fledgling military operations in cyberspace, which have focused more on protecting the Defense Department’s own computer systems than on disrupting or destroying those of enemies.

Plan X is a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pentagon agency that focuses on experimental efforts and has a key role in harnessing computing power to help the military wage war more effectively.

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and in related news….

Skywiper/Flame Analytics

See Also:

Owl: Major Cyber-Virus Across Middle East – Probably Israeli

Worm: The First Digital World War

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