The head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said today that the agency will focus "an increasing portion" of its cyber research on investigating offensive capabilities in the coming years, while a leading cybersecurity analyst posited that such capabilities could not be used until the Pentagon's defensive capabilities become sufficient. "Malicious cyber attacks are not merely an existential threat to our bits and bytes; they are a real threat to our physical systems, including our military systems," said DARPA...
