Pentagon Gets Attacked 6,000,000 Times Per Day

Network DoD withstand 6,000,000 hacker attacks per day. Such data led head Cyber Command Gen. Keith Alexander at a meeting with experts on network security and reporters in Washington, reports AFP.

In his first public speech since assuming the post of Alexander stated that concerned about the increasing "remote attacks on computer systems defense department. Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency (NSA), reported that at present the security 15000 Pentagon networks provide more than 7,000,000 systems.

Among the major sources of network threats general called terrorists, criminal groups and individual hackers. Thus Alexander concluded that the interests of the country are in danger because of the presence of "significant vulnerabilities and threats.

The general cited the example of hacking DDoS-attacks on government resources in Estonia and Georgia in 2007 and 2008. He also said that since there were new threats to security.

Order on the establishment of Cyber Command within the Pentagon was signed by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in June 2009. In May 2010 to head the unit was appointed as head of NSA's Keith Alexander. The task of providing security Kiberkomandovaniya military networks.