US 'to view major cyber attacks as acts of war'

[SamuelRSmith]

kitler53 said:

Rath said:

This isn't declaring hacking an act of war. It's simply formalising what is already known as cyber warfare as an act of war. It's completely understandable - when a state attacks another state through the internet it still causes damage.

but as lostplanet said above, hackers are generally individuals not states.

We're not talking about events like hacking the PSN, here. We're talking about things like state-on-state cyber attacks: cyber-warfare. The largest cyber attacks always come from the state: Google claimed that last year's attack came from China, the article references Stuxnet, where it was probable that either the USA or Israel tried to cause damage to Iran's systems.

Just by the nature of the fact that the Pentagon has released this shows that more states/large terrorist groups have been trying to hack the USA's computers than what is released to the public.