Hackers Convene Amid Signs Computer Security Is Eroding
With individuals and corporations increasingly relying on buggy software and the Internet to manage everything from their finances to their personal health records, incidents of malicious hacking continue to increase.
More than 7,000 computer security violations were reported in the first three months of this year, more than in all of 1998, according to the CERT Coordination Center, a security research group at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.