Internet 'terrorism' newsclips [CYPHER, but news]

Steve Schear azur at netcom.com
Sun Sep 29 16:54:43 PDT 1996


>>There were more than 250,000 attacks on Department of Defense computers last
>>year, and 65% were successful. Little is known about who launched them,
>why, or
>>what they found. In a recent test, Defense Department "red teams" admit to
>>intentionally hacking into 18,200 systems, with only 5% of the attacks
>>detected; only 27% of those attacks were reported.
>
>Wonder if the timing of these stories has anything to do with the end of
>term legislative push on wiretapping.

Quite possibly.  The message from this article is clear.  Step up
investigation and prosecution of illegal government Net activities :-)

-- Steve








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