Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Protect the Digital Frontier

For months, The federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber division watched Jason James Anchera. The 20 year old who dropped out of high school and worked at a internet cafe'. He was also involved in a secret society that was called Bot master Underground. ( A botmaster is software that invades computer systems and allows an attacker to gain complete control over the affected computer(s). Members of the hacker group were experts using botnets. This group who affected the computers had affected more than 400,000 computers. Foreign hackers regularly break into the United States government Web Sites and try to steal top secret information.