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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: Ken who wrote (7227)7/26/1999 7:36:00 AM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Russian hackers steal US weapons secrets

<< AMERICAN officials believe Russia may have stolen some of the nation's most sensitive military secrets, including weapons guidance systems and naval intelligence codes, in a concerted espionage offensive that investigators have called operation Moonlight Maze.
The intelligence heist, that could cause damage to America in excess of that caused by Chinese espionage in nuclear laboratories, involved computer hacking over the past six months. >>

<< According to other experts, America has been so preoccupied with beating the Y2K (year 2000) or millennium bug - a programming problem that could paralyse computers on the first stroke of the new year - that its military, scientific and commercial communities have neglected the overall security of their computer systems.

At the same time, the huge number of systems being overhauled to make them Y2K-compliant has heightened the risk of infiltration. >>

sunday-times.co.uk.

Come one, come all ... plenty of secrets to go around ... Ask about our Y2K Specials

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