America is planning to strengthen its arsenal of electronic

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Detection research center affiliated to the Ministry of Defense (Pentagon) that will support the efforts of the manufacture of weapons of Internet offensive to their possible use in attacks on U.S. military electronic objectives of the "enemies" amid growing U.S. fears of vulnerability of networks and devices controlled by computers to attack.

The Director of Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced Regina Dugan said yesterday that the U.S. military needs "to more and better choices" to address the risks faced by e-increasing number of industrial systems and other systems that are controlled by computers, and are vulnerable to penetration.

She said in the first conference of its kind concerned with the subject that "modern war will require the effective use of electronic systems and blending between them and the traditional means", likening this war, what happens on the battlefield of throwing bombs and firing missiles and attack tanks.

In order to inform the broader aspects of the case, called the agency mentioned the so-called "virtual hackers" as well as academics and others to the conference, in an attempt to "change the e-interactions defense" amid growing U.S. fears of cyber attacks.

In the same context, the Office of the Executive Board of the anti-spyware - an organ of the U.S. government - in a report to Congress last week that "China and Russia spying Tstaanan-mail to steal trade secrets and technology for the collection of American wealth at the expense of the United States."

On the other hand, revealed officials Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research at the conference said that an analysis recently conducted by the agency showed that the defense of the U.S. multi-mail in its present form "a lost cause because of hackers over electronic networks."

Expensive research
The analysis showed that the cost of the development agency computer securityprograms, including some up to "ten million lines of code have risen over the past twenty years while a malicious computer program requires only 125 lines in the Mediterranean".


Dogan said in front of about 700 from the participants that "this does not mean we should stop doing what we are dealing in e-security, but if we continue to move the current pathwill not control the danger."


The main task of Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research in maintaining U.S.military superiority and prevent any surprises in the technology developed through the auspices of expensive research with military applications.


U.S. officials have stepped up warnings about the devastating cyber-attacks after the virusstakes Forum in 2010 and the disruption of work in centrifuges used by Iran in enrichinguranium, the Bushehr nuclear reactor.


In order to meet the challenges at hand, called the center to increase funding for researchin the electronic fiscal 2012, which began in the first of October / November by more than 73% from $ 120 million to U.S. $ 208 million.
 

Source: Reuters