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Date: Thu Jul 23 2009 - 02:46:29 CDT

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/raytheon/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
July 22, 2009

Defense and intelligence contractor Raytheon is moving into the
lucrative realm of cyber warfare, and wants to hire hundreds of “cyber
warriors” to “play offense and defense,” according to an advertisement
on the company’s web site.

“President Obama recently announced that cyber security is one of our
country’s most urgent national security priorities,” reads the ad.
“Raytheon is answering that call by hiring more cyber warriors this year
to help fight the digital cyber war.”

The ad says the company has 250 positions available in its Intelligence
and Information Systems (IIS) division. The jobs are for, among others,
reverse engineers, kernel developers, and vulnerability and intrusion
detection engineers. Raytheon also has positions available for something
called “media sanitation specialists.”

The latter probably refers to workers skilled at erasing data from hard
drives and other storage, rather than to workers capable of spinning the
company’s message to journalists. But Raytheon did not respond to a
call seeking clarification.

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