US cyber-army's cyber-warriors 'cyber-humiliated by cyber-civvies in cyber-game

  • 5 August 2014
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Comment: IT security specialists reign in this cyber games.
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The US military held a series of online war games to pit reservist hackers against its active-duty cyber-warriors – and the results weren't pretty for the latter, we're told.
http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/08/05/us-military_hacking_team.jpg"Have you tried turning it off and then on again?"
 "The active-duty team didn’t even know how they’d been attacked. They were pretty much obliterated," said one Capitol Hill staffer who attended, Navy Times reports.
During the games, which took place in a compound at US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) headquarters at Fort Meade, serving members of the military's online task force struggled to defend their network against attacks by several units of reservists, many of whom have day jobs as IT security specialists. The final results remain classified.
 
The Register/ Full Article Here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/us_militarys_finest_cyberwarriors_pwned_by_amateurs_in_war_games/

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