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DoD Pick Says Cyber Attacks Can Be Acts of War

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

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The nominee to serve in a top global-strategy post at the Pentagon said yesterday she views some malicious infiltrations of computer networks as acts of war that could potentially warrant land attacks. Madelyn Creedon, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be assistant secretary of defense for global affairs, fielded multiple questions yesterday from the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on just when hostile attacks on U.S. cyber capabilities should be equated with war-like attacks. Creedon, a longtime SASC counsel, acknowledged people have…

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