What should the military services and DoD do about hacking official networks?

Honestly, we could secure our military network so that no foreign nation could hack it (at least not from the comfort of their own borders) but doing so would be insanely expensive, resource and time intensive, and be damn near worthless as a tool and service to the military as a whole. I would say the most realistic option is to do what we're attempting to do now. Recruit and train the best technical minds we can find and implement them from the top down. The problem with most of DoD's networks is that not enough true security professionals are advising decision makers. And even in the cases where they are advising leadership, leadership tends to not listen. Add onto that the budget cuts and things get even more difficult.

We had better do something, the Chinese have 8 regiments of hackers and they're actively probing our networks and training their N. Korean buddies to do the same.

We'd better come up with a defense and soonest.

While it is going to happen, nature of the beast, as the military we should be proactive and attack, or at least counter-attack, I think we can do more damage to them than the can to us.

Evolution - We'll never get to the point of total security because of the way cyber war is. Like other say, cat and mouse game. Doing the best we can is all we can do. But we as individuals can also help by what and how we post on line What we say and such. Changing our passwords and such. This is no different than many of us who go into a store or cafe, look around for avenues of approach, escape, assessing those around us, spotting dangers. We have to in sense keep our cyber backs to the wall and scan our lanes.

I think we need better trace software so we can ID who is doing what and where the originating IP is. Once they are traced and identified then we can take these ass clowns to court. Before that though, I think we need some international laws with teeth so that when hackers are caught infiltrating a country - not just government or military - any country has legal ground to prosecute the offenders.

Many systems already require adequate password standards in addition to biometrics, CAC cards and other access control protocols. Having a secure password is like gun control laws, the criminals will still find a way to get what they want without one.

All of the above.

Spend more money on protecting servers, not software.

Fight fire with fire. We (the United States) invented the technology, we should fight hacks with offensive software that literally explodes the offenders systems. Something that tracks back on their system and fries it.

This is a difficult issue. For every program or system that comes out, you have people actively looking for weakness or flaws. For every DoD system that is built, there are going to be individuals, organizations, and 'states' that are going to try breaking into the system. I am sure that we are doing the same to others (so we should expect no less). Everyone on a mil/DoD network is already supposed to have a secure password....but some of the software programs that are out there trying to HACK a password are pretty powerful.

No Mercy