The outgoing head of the Defense Information Systems Agency, which handles computer security for the US Department of Defense, has warned a massive cyber-attack is “looming” at the American military’s door.
Over lunch on Thursday, Army Lieutenant General Alan Lynn, who retires in a few months, told the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Washington chapter that a few years ago, just one or two “gigabytes” – we’re assuming he meant gigabits or gigabytes per second – of junk network traffic would be thrown at the military’s internet gateways by miscreants, but those days are long gone. Now the tsunamis of duff packets to overwhelm servers are a lot bigger.
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Source: The Register
