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Cyber-terrorists using hacking methods to target governments: US official

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Cyber-terrorists are attempting to penetrate government networks using the same methods as Internet hackers and many nations are vulnerable to the threat, a US State Department official said.

Michael Alcorn, branch chief of the State Department's Office of Anti-Terrorism Assistance, said terrorists were becoming more tech-savvy.

"The same technique that a hacker would use, the same technology, will be utilized by somebody with a different political motivation," said Alcorn at the close of a week-long training workshop here on cyber-terrorism.

During the course, held in conjunction with the Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism, officials from Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines were trained on assessing weakness in government networks and how to protect them.

posted by Fergie @ 8/02/2005 07:35:00 AM