DHS Using Video Games to Recruit Top Students as Cyber WarriorsHomeland Security seeks student hackers for good. Now, Department of Homeland Security SecretaryJanet Napolitano is seeking up to 600 new student hackers to combat what they claim is the increasing danger of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure throughout the country. There are new and rapidly growing threats of a cyberstrike to the US homeland perils that will require hundreds of young, college-age hackers to counter an alarming number of daily incursions into the nations electrical grid and financial networks, Napolitano told a Monitor BreakfastTuesday morning. Rather than the normalpropagandatechniquesused to lure young Americans into other branches of the government, Homeland Security is taking a different route which includes the use of sophisticated video games to essentially promote job opportunities within their agency to young impressionable high school students. One of these so-called games recently took place inVirginiaand featured 40 of the top young cyber talents in the state. The Cup Cyber Challenge, complete with the stated goal of helping students determine where their talents can best beutilizedto protect the security of the United States, is a series of high tech game-like exercises created to help DHS fill their needs. Also noted in the report was the fact that the idea to usecompetitionswas at least in part taken from astrategyemployed by Communist China. The threat of cyber warfare is a very real and present danger. Yet, many have questioned Homeland Security and the government as a whole when they claim that other nations, including terrorist groups, arerepeatablystriking the country with cyber attacks with very little evidence to support the claims. After all, there were no WMD in Iraq and we still fought that expensive war. The fact that the government has used these attacks to further push for restrictions on the Internet and on citizens points to the possibility that at least some of the recent cyber attacks and the push for young cyber warriors is actually a well-thought-out operation to further erode what once were constitutionallyprotected freedoms. The DHS now joins the Pentagon is recruiting the talented American youth to become cyber soldiers. Every branch of the military is preparing for cyber warfare including using Cyber security and warfare seem to be a new Cold War of sorts; a future that includes the Pentagon and Homeland Securityemployinga cadre of hackers, information technologies, Internet surveillance and monitoring technology, and plain old fashionedpreemptive deadly force on hackerswill be used. Make no mistake, the cyber war will be big business. All to defend the country against an enemy whose origin and authenticity is only known by those who fight them. Welcome to the Cyber Military-Industrial Complex. Sources: Read other articles by selfnews Post Here 