Word: hackers
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...agencies are also dabbling in hacker warfare. The National Security Agency, along with top-secret intelligence units in the Army, Navy and Air Force, has been researching ways to infect enemy computer systems with particularly virulent strains of software viruses that already plague home and office computers. Another type of virus, the logic bomb, would remain dormant in an enemy system until a predetermined time, when it would come to life and begin eating data. Such bombs could attack, for example, computers that run a nation's air-defense system or central bank. The CIA has a clandestine program that...
...There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...
...Clinton Administration today proposedcreating a new federal agency to police the "information superhighway."The Wall Street Journal reports that the new federal entity would respond to hacker intrusions that have undermined faith in thesecurity of electronic information and transactions, particularly as financial, transportation and other systems become almost exclusively electronic. The proposal, from a governmentwide task force called the National Information Infrastructure Forum, would train officials to respond to security "emergencies" andpush for encryption standardsthat government and industry could share...
...curious as to whether he had access toHarvard databanks," Yee said. "After all, thelabels were all printed. And if this person workedin some office with access to these databanks, orif he were a hacker, it would be very easy tobreak into them...
...whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...