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                Date: 1999-01-24
                 
                 
                USA: Drei Millarden Dollar gegen Hacker
                
                 
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      Knapp drei Milliarden Dollar will die Administration Clinton  
zusätzlich ausgeben, um die Infrastruktur der USA gegen  
Angriffe aller Art zu schützen, wobei zwischen chemischen,  
biologischen und elektronischen Mitteln nicht mehr  
unterschieden wird.  
Passend dazu wird am Donnerstag ein Interview mit  Bill  
Larson,  CEO Network Associates (McAfee, PGP),  
publiziert, das er vorgestern, Freitag, dem quintessenziellen  
Depeschendienst exklusiv gegeben hat. 
 
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January 22, 1999, 12:00 a.m. PT (Bloomberg) -- President  
Bill Clinton will ask Congress for $2.85 billion in fiscal year  
2000 to increase the ability of the U.S. military and civil  
defense officials to prevent attacks by terrorists using  
computers as well as biological and chemical weapons,  
White House officials said. 
. ... 
He also wants money to help the National Domestic  
Preparedness Office develop rapid-response programs for 120  
U.S.  cities and metropolitan areas, and he wants to hire  
scores of information technology experts to design new ways  
to protect the computer systems of government agencies  
from vandals and hackers.  
 
Companies such as Network Associates Inc., based in  
Santa Clara, California and Rockville, Maryland-based Axent  
Technologies Inc. which specialize in computer security  
software, could benefit from new government business.  
 
``This could only be a win for us,'' said Marvin Dickerson,  
senior product marketing manager at Network Associates, a  
company that's been working on federal government  
computer security projects for the last 15 years. 
 
 ... Network Associates in December helped MCI WorldCom  
Inc.  fight a computer virus attack. Axent earlier this month  
bought closely held Internet Tools Inc., a maker of software  
that can prevent Internet break-ins, for $25.3 million; 
 
... President Clinton mentioned his plans to meet the  
challenges of terrorist threats in the 21st Century during  
Tuesday's State of the Union speech.  
 
``We must work to keep terrorists from disrupting computer  
networks,'' he said to a joint session of Congress and a  
national television audience. ``We must work to prepare local  
communities for biological and chemical emergencies, to  
support research into vaccines and treatments.'' 
 
...  
Clinton administration officials haven't said how they plan to  
pay for the new defense spending. About $2.5 billion of the  
cost could be covered by closing U.S. military bases  
considered obsolete, said Robert Bell, a member of the  
National Security Council.  
 
full text 
http://www.news.com/Investor/NewsItem/0,213,0~3~2~Computer%20Data%20Security~AXNT~BLO~357913402~~~~~,00.html
                   
 
relayed by darek milewski darekm@cmeasures.com  
via mea culpa jericho@dimensional.com 
 
 
 
 
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