Pentagon taking steps to secure US cyber infrastructure from attacks as war looms with North Korea

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April 14, 2017 8:23 PM

War between the US and an adversary like North Korea "wouldn’t begin with a bang, but begin silently."

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Sci-Tech Complex, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), October 28, 2015.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency recently reached out to BAE systems to develop a workaround for a potential cyberattack on the US that would likely be the precursor to serious acts of actual warfare, Defense Systems reports.

According to Geers, because of the limited number of servers and access points to North Korea's very restricted internet, "If it ever came to cyberwar between the US and North Korea, it would be an overwhelming victory for the West."

"North Korea can do a Sony attack or attack the White House, but that's because that's the nature of cyberspace," Geers said. "But if war came, you'd see Cyber Command wipe out most other countries' [internet] pretty quickly."

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