Just before Mr. Obama was elected, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy research group in Washington, warned in a report that "America's failure to protect cyberspace is one of the most urgent national security problems facing the new administration."
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Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon
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Spear-Phishing And Pharming:
Cybertheft of identity and data is becoming sophisticated business.
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This isn't just the work of amateurs anymore. Organized gangs of highly trained
software and hardware experts from places like Eastern Europe or Asia are now
connected to people of similar or complementary skills in the U.S. and Western
Europe. The prizes are valuable secrets ranging from personal identities and
passwords to intellectual property at the foundation of global corporations
(see "Hackonomics").
"All the stuff we know about is the tip of the iceberg," [Ken Silva,
chief security officer at Verisign] says. So-called worms and bots (software
robots) are "noisy," making their presence known quickly. "The
real problem is where people have developed programs that are relatively quiet
and which slowly infiltrate the data in such a way that it can sit there for
years and no one knows it."
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Electronic voting machines in
U.S. at risk from foreign hackers attacking military computers
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