At Google Schmidt has used the Web's openness to create an even bigger and harder-to-attack network of online developers who build software for products like Google Maps and now Android.
Section 249 authorizes the President to declare a state of cyber emergency if critical infrastructure (CI) is deemed to be in serious jeopardy of a network-based attack and institute emergency measures to protect it.
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"It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the Tor software or even the Tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under, " one update read.
Sony was the target of a number of cyber attacks last year, kicking off with a distributed denial of service attack by the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous in April 2011.
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He addresses such questions as: May a State ever respond to a computer network attack by exercising a right of national self-defense? and: Must attacks adhere to the principle of proportionality?
Who is responsible for damage that could occur to the private sector network as a consequence of the attack or as the result of a counterattack?
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So it is absolutely critical that we dismantle that network of extremists that are willing to attack us.
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The researchers says their attack would allow an intruder to take control of a sensor network with just a laptop, an antenna, and their exploit written in Java.
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An October 2nd CNN report revealed that the Obama administration repeatedly sent out talking points to them that also contradicted top intelligence officials and sources for the network on the details of what caused the attack.
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No-one was injured in the attack on the Televisa network's station in the northern city of Monterrey.
The White House has confirmed it was the target of a cyber-attack but says the breach hit an unclassified network.
Anderson told attendees that the U.S. Space Command, the agency in charge of satellite communications, has begun to craft a computer network attack strategy.
Among those selling the split-dollar insurance now under attack by the IRS were planners from American Express, which has a network of 10, 000 advisers.
Dozens of "tributes" were added to the social network following the December attack in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six adults died.
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The Blue Shield network, which works to protect cultural property from attack in the event of armed conflict, has also urged Egyptians to prevent actions that could result in the damage or destruction of their cultural heritage.
If a user's network--or the Internet at large--slows down because of an attack, it could affect phone calls.
The attack was simple, said Jon Green, head of product marketing at Aruba Networks, which provided the network security at the conference.
Unlike a typical bot-net, which hijacks PCs with malicious software, that network of unwitting proxies wouldn't leave anything behind on victims' machines, making the attack harder to trace.
The digital wave will be "a brutal attack on the underpinnings of our business, " warns Garth Ancier, who oversees programming at CNN, the WB network, TBS and other AOLTime Warner outlets.
He refrained from doing so even when he was presented with strong evidence that an attack on a tribal gathering he convened in Kabul in June was carried out by the Haqqani network, one of the three leading insurgent groups, which has close links to Pakistan's intelligence service.
Technicians labeled the incident as a network router failure but are still checking into the possibility that the company was the target of an attack.
Attacks like the "evil twin" disrupt a company's network from the outside, jamming its radio signals or bogging it down with a denial of service attack, then broadcasting a counterfeit signal into the building.
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