Washington, Nov 9 (ANI): The United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has asked the internet hacker community to help in eliminating cyber threats surrounding the nation's defence networks.
According to Wired.com, DARPA, hosted a meeting this week for defense stakeholders and civilian computer experts, acknowledging that it has to start thinking differently about cyber security, and urged hackers to eliminate Defense Department computer vulnerabilities.
A national security expert, Richard Clarke, pointed out that the computer networks that run US infrastructure are 'so vulnerable to cyber attack' that the White House should think twice before even attacking emerging adversaries.
Clarke, who advised ex-Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, added that the nation's defense networks are "as porous as a colander."
Clarke, who claims his early 2001 warnings to the Bush administration about the emerging threat of Al Qaeda went unheeded, issued the new warnings as tensions escalate between the US Israel and their shared adversary Iran, the New York Daily News reports.
Last month it emerged that a mundane virus called a key logger, one that surreptitiously records keyboard typing, was found on the computers used to remotely pilot Air Force drones targeting terrorists overseas.
According to the report, in 2009 national security officials disclosed that Russian and Chinese agents had penetrated the US. electric grid and left behind software to help map the systems. (ANI)
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