Military spent $100 million fighting hackers in six months and cost is going up.
There is an interesting pice today from CNN.
The U.S. military has spent at least $100 million defending its computer network from and responding to cyberattacks, according to a top official responsible for network security.
This goes for everything from the bored script kiddie to nation-states and their sophisticated arrays of computer hacking systems. The Pentagon is planning to triple the number of cyber ‘defenders’ to 250, but that might not be enough as the attacks become more intensified.
Though, with all computer security stories now days, take this with a slight grain of salt. With the Cybersecurity Bill pending before the Congress, you’ll expect a great deal of ’scare stories’ coming out trying to help along passage of this legislation. Who knows how many are totally accurate, and how many are just puff pieces trying to inflate the risk.
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