US launches cyber security plan

[Netto Azure]

US launches cyber security plan

US President Barack Obama has announced plans for securing American computer networks against cyber attacks.
He said that from now on, America's digital infrastructure would be treated as a strategic national asset.
He announced the creation of a cyber security office in the White House, and said he would personally appoint a "cyber tsar".
Both US government and military bodies have reported repeated interference from hackers in recent years.
Mr Obama pointed out that al-Qaeda and other groups had threatened computer warfare.
Acts of terror today, he said, could come "not only from a few extremists in suicide vests, but from a few key strokes of a computer - a weapon of mass disruption."
The president said the United States was particularly dependent on its computer networks and therefore particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks.
In 2007 alone the Pentagon reported nearly 44,000 incidents of what it called malicious cyber activity carried out by foreign militaries, intelligence agencies and individual hackers.

First techie Prez?

Anyways, I am very happy with this development. I know that the US is quite open with it's cyber-infrastructure with it being a democracy and all but we really need to safeguard some of our personal information. =/

 

[Valdez]

I'll say; I read an article not two days ago which said that the US cyber system was being attacked several times a week by people in China and Russia.

Edit: Ah, here it is.