US cyber army ready to hit Russian infrastructure if US elections are hacked

US military hackers are understood to have penetrated Russia’s electricity grid, telecoms networks and Kremlin command systems, ready to strike back if the pivotal US elections are disrupted by hackers.

It has been part of the US military doctrine for a number of years to consider an attack on US-based servers as an attack on sovereign territory.

But high-profile attacks – like those on Sony Pictures by North Korea, and a variety of attacks on US government bodies in the past year or two – beg the question: what is the US actually doing about it? Or perhaps, how much do we actually know about what the US is doing? For the full article click here 

from hacker samurai http://ift.tt/2fTeqm7
via IFTTT