http://www.darkreading.com/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226400063 By Tim Wilson DarkReading July 30, 2010 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Black Hat USA 2010 -- There's a difference between the gathering of foreign intelligence -- the spy game -- and outright cyberwarfare, a former CIA director told an audience here yesterday. Gen. Michael Hayden, who has served as the director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, offered some insight into the government's views on cyberwarfare in a keynote address at Black Hat. His comments ran contrary to some current and former government officials, who have stated that the U.S. is already engaged in cyberwar. "When it comes to the question of what is cyberwar, we've been thinking a lot about it, but not very clearly," Hayden said. "I think we've gotten a little sloppy with the language." Hayden, who is also a former Air Force general, offered some perspective on how military and intelligence leaders view the parameters of cyberwar. "Cyber is a domain, just as land, sea, air, and space are domains," Hayden said. "God made those four domains; you made the fifth one. God did a better job." [...] -- Visit InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/Received on Wed Aug 04 2010 - 00:31:32 PDT
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