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US, China Defense Heads Agree To Cyber Collaboration

China and the U.S. have agreed to collaborate in cyber space in an attempt to avoid avoid any future crises, BBC reports.  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chinese defense leader Liang Guanglie met Monday in Washington to discuss territorial disputes in the South China Sea, arms sales to Taiwan, North Korea’s nuclear program and cybersecurity.  [...]

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Panetta: ‘We Have to Continue to Focus on the Threat of Cyber Attacks’

August 8, 2011 1 Comment

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to service members about national cybersecurity concerns during a visit last week to U.S. Strategic Command headquarters in Nebraska. In his address, he discussed key security threats, achievements in the war against terrorism and the future of the defense budget. He warned the soldiers that the largest threat to [...]

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Pentagon Releases First-ever Cyberspace Strategy

July 14, 2011 No Comment

The Defense Department today released its strategy for operating in cyberspace, its first unified plan that aims to address the multitude of cyber threats the nation faces on a daily basis. “It is critical to strengthen our cyber capabilities to address the cyber threats we’re facing,” said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a release. “I [...]

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Spy Chief: Digital Pearl Harbor Could Happen

February 11, 2011 2 Comments

CIA Director Leon E. Panetta told a U.S. House panel Thursday cybersecurity is the international “battleground of the future,” echoing FBI head Robert S. Mueller‘s concerns about cybersecurity being a growing problem. Appearing before the House intelligence committee, which was holding a hearing on worldwide threats, Panetta said he does not think there is any [...]

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CIA Website Gets a Makeover

February 9, 2011 No Comment

The CIA has launched a revamped website with links to YouTube and Flickr to help Americans better understand the agency’s often secretive work, officials said. “The idea behind these improvements is to make more information about the agency available to more people, more easily,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a statement Monday. “The CIA [...]

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Panetta Warns Cyber Attack Could be Next Pearl Harbor

April 21, 2010 7 Comments

CIA Director Leon Panetta recently told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that a cyber attack could be the next “Pearl Harbor” that the country faces. Panetta said that the U.S. is currently under thousands of attacks daily that come from Russia, China, Iran and non-affiliated hackers and that “cyber terrorism” is an area of [...]

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