Hackers Attack Iraq's Vulnerable Computers

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via USA Today.

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Maj. Ahmed Khathem, the head of Iraq's newly formed cybercrimes division,
sits in a borrowed office, at a borrowed desk, working at a borrowed laptop
one of his subordinates brought from home.

It is his unit's lone computer, highlighting the country's vulnerability to
a community of Iraqi hackers defacing websites and attempting to hack into
sensitive internal networks.

Iraq's government is engaged in a bloody struggle against al-Qaeda, and its
computers make a prime target for global terror networks that have added
hacking to their arsenal.

"We could have the most powerful anti-hacking force in the world, but we'd
still have no computers, so we couldn't do anything," says Ali Hussein, one
of 12 computer science graduates added to the cybercrime team last month.
"The government thinks about guns, tanks and raiding houses. Hackers just
aren't a priority."

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More:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2008-08-28-iraqh
ackers_N.htm

- - ferg

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