The heightened alert came the day after the of the Navy Cyber Defense Operations The heightened alert came the day after the decision of the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command to take the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., offline following an intrusion. Cmdr. Doug Gabos, a military spokesman, told UPI the compromised network was unclassified and could not give an estimate as to when it would be back up. “They are still taking steps to mitigate the intrusion,” he said, adding the compromisedsystems would be examined forensically for evidence about the hackers.
The college is the home of the Naval Strategic Studies Group, which reportedly develops the service’s cyber-warfare strategy. Its Web site also continues to be down. TheWashington Times, which first reported the outage, said a at the college told which first reported the outage, said a professor at the college told his class the intrusion had come from China — part of an increasingly aggressive cyber-war policy by the People’s Liberation Army. Time magazine revealed last year the existence of what it called a “massive cyber-espionage ring” based in China that U.S. investigators codenamed Titan Rain.
