The Pentagon is increasing efforts to build an arsenal of cyber weapons for use against enemy targets by the U.S. military.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, held a symposium discussing the increasing threat to systems controlled by computers.The goal is to secure U.S. infrastructure and assure the military’s ability to use these systems in future conflicts. A recent DARPA assessment found that the U.S. is limited in dealing with fast-evolving threats from malicious software code.
DARPA played a role in creating Arpanet, a forerunner to the Internet.
