It was a milestone in the short butrnnasty history of cyber-war. In November, Washington suffered from a severe, painful, and widespread attack on the Pentagon's most sensitive computers. The most worrisome aspect was evidence that the attack had official Russian state origins.rnDefense officials said the strike damaged networks in US Central Command, overseer of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and affected vital computersrnin combat zones. Moreover, the attack penetrated at least one highly protected and classified DOD network, according to published reports.rn"This one was significant; this one got our attention," a defense official told the Los Angeles Times.rnThe world has yet to see an all-out. no-kidding cyber-war, but the skirmishes are growing larger, and more numerous, a fact that does not go unnoticed in US security circles.
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