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88 A.B.A. J. 51 (2002)
Hack Attack

handle is hein.journals/abaj88 and id is 839 raw text is: It's Tough to Find and Prosecute Computer Thieves, But Any Lawyer Can Protect the Home Site JASON KRAUSE VER THE SUMMER, THE U.S. NAVAL WAR COL- lege staged a simulated cyber-attack on U.S. targets. They called it a digital Pearl Harbor, trying to plot what a concentrated computer-based attack on telecommunica- tions, Internet, financial and power grid systems would look like. According to analysts, hackers trying to attack the government's fortress-like securi- ty systems protecting water, electricity and other utilities would need in excess of $200 million to carry it off. By comparison, simple crimes like stealing and selling credit card numbers over the Internet, swiping intellectual property, and engaging in piracy and unauthorized use of digital IDs have become routine with the rise of hacking software that lets even novices break into un- protected computer systems. Every month, flaws are found in software that almost every American with a computer has on his or her machine. Just this summer, several flaws were discovered in Microsoft security Jason Krause is a legal affairs writer for the ABA Journal. His e-mail ad- dress is krausej@staff.abanet.org. November 2002 ABA JOURNAL I llV' COM UTE SEC1 URd~ll[iIY

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