The federal government can report in exacting detail the number of bank robberies committed in any given year. But when it comes to computer crimes against government agencies, it's close to clueless. Government officials estimate that only 20% of computer crime . . .
The federal government can report in exacting detail the number of bank robberies committed in any given year. But when it comes to computer crimes against government agencies, it's close to clueless. Government officials estimate that only 20% of computer crime incidents are being reported because the agencies either don't have the technical sophistication to discover the crimes or they want to keep bad news quiet. It's for those reasons that the 155 root compromises to federal computers reported last year likely represent a fraction of the actual number.

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