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**__ media type="custom" key="6097427" width="140" height="151" align="right"Cyber Terrorism __** With many recent computer attacks people believe there is a new kind of terrorism on the rise. They call it cyber terrorism and its becoming a big problem in this country. Everyone in the cou ntry needs to protect themselves from this new crime. This new form of terrorism poses a very big threat to our technology dependent society. Cyber terrorism is one of the biggest issues with homeland security to date. The Defense Information Security Agency found that 88% of the 3000 defense computer systems that were a ttacked were easy to penetrate. Of t he systems that were illegally entered 96% of the entries were not detected. Of the 4% that were detected, only 5% of them were reported or investigated. It is esti mated that businesses lose an annual 138 million dollars a year to cyber hackers. In 1996 40 major companies had reported losing over 800 million dollars to cyber terrorists. “According to the CIA the government has been penetrated 250,000 times so far this year.” Cyber terrorists who are part of the small group called hacking for hire are now altering documents and stealing money from banks. They are able to create active X controls to easily go into a bank user’s account and withdraw money from the account. The banks are losing a lot of money and most importantly they are losing the trust of their clients. The banks will not admit that they have inadequate defenses against anyone who decides that they want to use the internet as a way to hack the banks. Banks need to really improve their cyber defenses so that they can regain the trust of their clients and stop losing money. ​

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