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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Experts: Don't dismiss cyberattack warning - DAN VERTON, Computerworld
Security experts and two former CIA officials said today that warnings of cyberattacks by al-Qaeda against western economic targets should not be taken lightly. Vince Cannistraro, the former chief of counterterrorism at the CIA, said that a number of Islamists, some of them close to al-Qaeda, have developed expertise in computer science. "And some are well schooled in how to carry out cyberattacks," he said.
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