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He was responsible for the defense and operation of the Pentagon's global information network. We continue to improve our capabilities, but so do the adversaries. In July, an independent study of the overall federal cyber-workforce described it as fragmented and understaffed. The study blamed a hiring process that takes too long to vet security clearances, low salaries, and the lack of a unified hiring strategy.

The co-author was Booz Allen Hamilton, the government contracting firm where former intelligence Director McConnell now runs the cyber-security business. The Defense Department graduates only about 80 students per year from schools devoted to teaching cyber-warfare.

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that the military is "desperately short" of cyber-warriors and that the Pentagon wants four times as many graduates to move through its teaching programs over the next two years. That will be difficult, considering that the military and intelligence agencies compete directly with industry for top talent. Beltway contractors have been on a hiring spree ever since the Bush administration began the comprehensive cyber-security plan. Raytheon, which has assisted Pentagon special-operations forces using advanced cyber-technology, posted an ad to its website earlier this year titled "Cyber Warriors Wanted.

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Despite a relative shortage of skilled warriors, the military services have charged vigorously into cyberspace. The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines all have their own cyber-operations groups, which handle defense and offense, and they've competed with one another to control the military's overall strategy.

It now appears that the individual service components will report to the new Cyber Command, which will be led by a four-star general. NSA Director Alexander, the presumptive candidate, has three stars, and his promotion would require the Senate's approval. The military may be organizing for a cyberwar, but it's uncertain how aggressive a posture it will take.

Some have argued for creating an overt attack capability, the digital equivalent of a fleet of bombers or a battalion of tanks, to deter adversaries. In a article in Armed Forces Journal, Col. Charles Williamson III, a legal adviser for the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency, proposed building a military "botnet," an army of centrally controlled computers to launch coordinated attacks on other machines.

Williamson echoed a widely held concern among military officials that other nations are building up their cyber-forces more quickly. Williamson titled his essay, "Carpet Bombing in Cyberspace. Kevin Coleman, a senior fellow with the security firm Technolytics and the former chief strategist for the Web pioneer Netscape, said that China's and Russia's abilities to defend and attack are just as good as America's.

Last year, the head of counterintelligence for the government told National Journal that Chinese cyber-spies routinely pilfer strategy information from American businesspeople in advance of their meetings in China.

And a computer security expert who consults for the government said that during a trip to Beijing in December , U. But it is the Russian government that has done the most to stoke fears of a massive cyberwar between nations. Most experts believe that Russian sources launched a major attack in April against government, financial, and media networks in Estonia.

It came on the heels of a controversy between Estonian and Russian officials over whether to move a statue honoring Soviet-era war dead. Estonia, one of the most "wired" nations on Earth, is highly dependent upon access to the Internet to conduct daily business, and the cyberattack was crippling.

A year later, many security experts accused Moscow of launching a cyberattack on Georgia as conventional Russian military forces poured into the country.

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The assault was aimed at the Georgian centers of official command and public communication, including websites for the Georgian president and a major TV network. The suspected Russian attacks startled military and civilian cyber-experts around the globe because of their scale and brazenness. Not all of the computers that attacked Estonia were in Russia. The machines, in fact, were scattered throughout 75 countries and were probably hijacked by a central master without their owners' knowledge.

Many of the soldier-machines in this global botnet were in the United States, an Estonian ally. To launch a counteroffensive, Estonia would have had to attack American computers as well as those in other friendly countries. The anonymity of the Internet provides many alibis. Furthermore, it's hard to know whether the Russian government committed the attack, hired cyber-mercenaries to do it, or simply looked the other way as patriotic hackers turned their sights on rival countries. The attacks also hit sites in South Korea, and suspicion immediately turned to North Korea.

But again, the inability to attribute the source with certainty impeded any response. The attacks appear to have emanated from about 50, computers still infected with an old computer virus, which means that their owners probably had no idea they were participating in a cyber-offensive. Some of those machines were inside the United States, said Tom Conway, the director of federal business development for McAfee. An information operations cell was set up as part of the bombing campaign. The cell's mission was to penetrate the Serbian national air defense system, published accounts and knowledgeable officials said, and to make fake signals representing aircraft show up on Serbian screens.

The false signals would have confused the Serbian response to the invasion and perhaps destroyed commanders' confidence in their own defenses.

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According to a high-level military briefing that Federal Computer Week obtained in , the cyber-operation "could have halved the length of the [air] campaign. The cyber-soldiers were young outsiders, fighting a new kind of warfare that, even the briefing acknowledged, was "not yet understood. These fears hark back to the first encounter with a rampant Internet virus, in This was also very exciting as the Shah of Iran started to totter on his peacock throne as we arrived in the country.

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