Monday, September 16, 2002

Securing Cyberspace David Kirkpatrick suggests that insecure home broadband connections might create a platform for launching an attack on U.S. infrastructure. "The real weaknesses in the critical infrastructure relate to weaknesses on the user desktop." The reasons are several. Personal computers have become extremely powerful and many people now connect to the Net with speedy broadband lines, yet most home users have little or no security protection. Hackers now know how to commandeer massive numbers of machines to mount an attack. And an assault on the nation's infrastructure that emanated from thousands of compromised home computers might be harder to detect. 8:22:00 AM

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