Hack Attack Threat?
Department of Energy investigators recently demonstrated to Congress just how easy it is to hack into a supposedly secure government computer. It took them less than 15 minutes.
And that's not all. At the EPA, an intruder blocked access to agency computers. And last year, congressional investigators secretly tapped into IRS computers that held confidential information about taxpayers.
"The government was asked in the last administration to become a model in computer security and it did - it became a model of how not to do computer security," said Richard Clarke, the national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counterterrorism.
