Pentagon still under assault from hackers(1)

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　　Defense Department pleas (请求) to computer hackers to quit mischief-making appear to be falling largely on deaf ears, making spotting potential national security threats more diffcult. Despite recent appeals, "we're not seeing any diminishing" of the pace of attacks on Defense Department systems, said Richard Schaeffer, who heads the cybersecurity office in the Pentagon arm responsible for command, control, communications and intelligence.

　　Last year, a total of 22,144 "attacks" were detected on Defense Department networks, up from 5,884 in 1998, Air Force Maj.Gen. John Campbell, then vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), told Congress in March.

　　So far this year through Aug. 4, a total of 13,998 such "events" have been reported, according to Besty Flood, a spokeswoman for Arlington, Va.-based DISA, which provides worldwide communication, network and software support to the Defense Department.

　　Updating the statistics in reply to a query from Reuters, she defind "events" as probes, scans, virus incidents and intrusions (侵扰).

　　Schaeffe, at a Bethesda, Md., "Web Defense" conference on business solutions to cyber-crime, said the government would like to take hackers "out of the equation as much as we can" to make it easier to track cyber threats possibly tied to foreign foes.

　　Asked whether he expected recreational hackers to comply with the Pentagon request, he replied, "Probably not," even though, he said, the Pentagon was crying "uncle" and telling hackers "you got our attention".

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