Cyberwarfare joins the curriculum at service academies

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http://www.stripes.com/news/cyberwarfare-joins-the-curriculum-at-service-academies-1.158642

By Chris Carroll
Stars and Stripes
October 24, 2011

WASHINGTON -- A cyberattack took place recently in a darkened classroom 
at the U.S. Naval Academy.

The target was a computer demo a set up by Ensign Justin Monroe, a 
recent academy graduate who was instructing first-year midshipmen on the 
basics of website attack and defense.

But someone in the class was ahead of the game, defacing the fictional 
web page he’d set up as a teaching tool. Monroe, 23, the first naval 
information warfare officer to be commissioned out of the academy, 
squinted as he scanned lines of code that students had injected into the 
website.

“OK, who the hell turned everything blue?” he said. “Turn it back, 
please.”

Monroe laughed along with the students, but the mission of the class is 
seen as deadly serious. That’s why for the first time, incoming students 
this year take a mandatory cyberwar class.

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