Who's watching the store?

Every sector is becoming increasingly dependent on information

Look at some recent stories:

- High-visibility Web sites at Yahoo and CNN were blasted off the Internet through "denial of service" attacks.

- Fourteen computers at the Agriculture Department were put out of service for several weeks because of an intrusion.

- The State Department Web site that supports political operations around the world was compromised, its information altered and backdoors installed twice in less than eight months. - The federally sponsored Internet2 Site at the University of Minnesota was brought down for nearly two days by 232 infected computers at other sites being used to attack it. At four other commercial and academic sites, more than 1,400 computers were infected. The FBI issued a warning that potential attacks from infected computers put the Internet at risk.