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Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, October 10, 2001

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/10/9/cyberwar-usat.htm

Experts: Cyberspace could be next target
By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO — For 3 ½ years, a shadowy group of computer hackers has broken into hundreds of computer networks and stolen thousands of top-secret files on Pentagon war-planning systems and NASA technical research. Dubbed the "Moonlight Maze" group, the hackers continue to elude the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency, despite the biggest cyberprobe ever. And while no one knows what is being done with the classified information, some fear the thefts may be the work of terrorists or that the information could be sold to terrorists....

 


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