Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told a conference in Brussels that the danger of cyber attacks is growing and was highlighted by the 2008 cyber penetration of U.S. classified military networks by a foreign spy agency he did not identify. “It was any network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently on your system, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary,” Lynn said of the cyber attack which some reports have identified as launched by Russian intelligence.

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