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Internet Crimes: Even the Defense Department Is At Risk

By Steven Rodriguez

With more houses, apartments and offices getting Internet ready, Internet crimes are on the rise.  Not just the number of crimes, but the complexity of them.  For example, senior military leaders took the exceptional step of briefing President Bush this week on a severe and widespread Internet attack on Defense Department computers that may have originated in Russia — an incursion that posed unusual concern among commanders and raised potential implications for national security. The attack struck hard at networks within U.S. Central Command, the headquarters that oversees U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and affected computers in combat zones. The attack also penetrated at least one highly protected classified network. Military computers are regularly beset by outside hackers, computer viruses and worms...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).