4-16-96. Jour: "Bidzos Holds Key to Guarding Internet Secrets." Mr. Bidzos has made shrewd deals to build a powerful franchise, but he has also angered the government's security apparatus and some of his own customers and partners. Mr. Bidzos has fended off the government with a mix of stratagems and chutzpah. Lynn McNulty, an ex- Commerce official, said Mr. Bidzos always found "the open door that we hadn't thought about locking." Adds NSAper Stew Baker, "Jim has made a career out of bashing the NSA." 4-16-96. Fint: "A hacker's paradise. One computer on the Internet is broken into every 20 seconds." Despite a proliferation of computer security products ranging from "secure" server and browser software to firewalls, encryption and authentication schemes, computer break-ins are on the rise. Security experts say US Internet sites are under frequent attack by hackers from eastern Europe. But there are also now more than 20,000 aggressive, deliberately destructive hackers in the US and the number is said to be growing at a minimum of 5 per cent per month. Ironically, as the number of sophisticated hackers rises, there is a dire shortage of computer security professionals. IRO_nic