US increases cyberwarfare spending

The US military research and development division, Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), has announced that it is stepping up its efforts to enhance the country's cyber warfare arsenal. DARPA said that it plans to increase its spending on cyber security by 50 percent over a period of five years.

"DARPA's role in the creation of the internet means we were party to the intense opportunities it created and share in the intense responsibility of protecting it. Our responsibility is to acknowledge and prepare to protect the nation in this new environment," says DARPA director Regina Dugan.

"We need more and better options. We will not prevail by throwing bodies or buildings at the challenges of cyberspace. Our assessment argues that we are capability limited, both offensively and defensively. We need to fix that."

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