06:36 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe US is working on a plan to categorise cyber-attacks as acts of war, says the New York Times newspaper.<\/p>\n
In future, a US president could consider economic sanctions, cyber-retaliation or a military strike if key US computer systems were attacked, officials have said recently.<\/p>\n
The planning was given added urgency by a cyber-attack last month on the defence contractor, Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n
A new report from the Pentagon is due out in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n
“A response to a cyber-incident or attack on the US would not necessarily be a cyber-response. All appropriate options would be on the table,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
‘All necessary means’<\/span><\/p>\nThe Pentagon’s planning follows an international strategy statement on cyber-security, issued by the White House on 16 May.<\/p>\n
The US would “respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country”, stated the White House in plain terms.<\/p>\n
“We reserve the right to use all necessary means – diplomatic, informational, military, and economic – as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests.”<\/p>\n
The strategy will classify major cyber-attacks as acts of war, paving the way for possible military retaliation, reported The Wall Street Journal after interviewing defence officials.<\/p>\n
Sophistication of hackers<\/span><\/p>\nOne of the difficulties strategists are grappling with is how to track down reliably the cyber-attackers who deliberately obscure the origin of their incursions.<\/p>\n
And it is not clear how the Pentagon proposes to deal with cyber-attackers, such as terrorists, who are not acting for a nation state.<\/p>\n
The sophistication of hackers and frequency of the attacks came back into focus after an attack on arms-maker Lockheed Martin on 21 May.<\/p>\n
Lockheed said the “tenacious” cyber-attack on its network was part of a pattern of attacks on it from around the world.<\/p>\n
The US defence department estimates that more than 100 foreign intelligence organizations have attempted to break into American networks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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