Just after midnight on Aug. 16, 1996, hackers cracked the Justice Department web site, replacing the Attorney General's picture with Adolf Hitler's. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Boster, contacted by the FBI, ordered the site brought down at 2:45 a.m. Boster, in charge of information resources management, ordered the department to review its online security, and what he learned can help others who want to make their systems less vulnerable. Top management is asking information technologists to do more work on the web, which makes organizations more vulnerable because internal networks are connecting to the world outside. In response, technologists buy a "firewall," a device that limits network access , and declare themselves safe-or at least safer. Actually, they're practicing "security by prayer"-praying people will hack other sites where entry is easier.
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