The National Security Agency says foreign governments already have developed such computer attack capabilities.
When a company is actually the victim of a computer attack, the company may be required to disclose the incident, its impact on operations and what steps have been undertaken to prevent a future problem.
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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.
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?
Police say Menezes de Oliveira destroyed his home computer before the attack to conceal how he had planned it.
Security experts say patterns of activity on the Internet could indicate that a new computer worm is about to attack.
In this particular attack, 11 million computer systems were said to have been compromised by multiple variants of malicious software known as Yahos.
Computer systems at energy firm RasGas have been taken offline by a computer virus only days after a similar attack on oil giant Aramco.
By the fifteenth year chip PCs had begun their attack on the top-down computer establishment.
That means they could be used to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on a victim's computer.
But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.
An attack on U.S. computer networks could knock out power grids, telecommunications, transportation and banking systems in a matter of seconds.
Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, was charged last month with five offences under the Criminal Law and Computer Misuse Acts, including an alleged hacking attack against Soca's website.
As NetworkWorld notes, that could lead to some more nefarious folks developing a SMM rootkit, which would be all the more perilous considering that the user of the infected computer would have no way of detecting the attack.
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Analysis of the attack reveals that someone got access to the computer systems of one firm that issue certificates.
The US is establishing a sophisticated computer system to provide early warning of a bio-terror attack on the country, it is reported.
Facebook, in a blog post, on Friday said it discovered the attack after finding a suspicious Internet domain in its computer logs that it traced to a single employee laptop.
"We generally do not discuss specific vulnerabilities, threats, or responses to our computer networks, since that helps people looking to exploit or attack our systems to refine their approach, " says Lt.
Mr Clarke has long spoken of the vulnerability of the US to a cyber-attack, especially considering the country's reliance on computer networks.
Jake Davis, 18, was charged with unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website.
The online attack comes on the heels of recent hacks into the computer systems of U.S. media and technology companies, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
On Sunday, a computer hacker who calls himself "The Jester" claimed responsibility for the cyber attack that affected WikiLeaks.
The courts have yet to decide who is liable if a computer system with lax security is used to launch a denial-of-service attack, but a number of lawsuits are pending.
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That's because fewer attacks have been designed to infiltrate Mac computers, and adding more Macs to the military's computer mix makes it tougher to destabilize a group of military computers with a single attack, Wallington says.
Such classified computer systems are protected by multiple levels of security and are among the most "hardened" systems against digital attack.
Don DeBolt, director of threat research at CA, a computer security company, said it's too early to tell who or what may be behind the Twitter attack.
At 3 a.m. he gave the order to abandon the embassy building because there were Twitter feeds saying an attack was coming, and he told stories like that of the embassy nurse who started "smashing computer hard drives with an ax" to protect classified information.
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