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Summary The Pentagon will consider all the options if United States is hit by a cyber attack.
President Barack Obamas administration has been formalizing rules on cyberspace amid growing concern about the reach of hackers. US it develops the first military guidelines for the age of Internet warfare.The US military suffered its worst cyber-attack in 2008 likely from a foreign spy agency. The attack served as a wakeup call, with the Pentagon setting up a Cyber Command and working up the doctrine for a new type of conflict. A study identified the United States, Britain, France, Israel, Russia and China as the leaders in cyber-offense, with Moscow and Beijing viewing cyber-attacks as an attractive option in the event of a major conflict. Iran has accused the United States and Israel of last year launching Stuxnet, a worm that reportedly wreaked havoc on computers in the Islamic republics controversial nuclear program.
