Resumen
This article discusses the vulnerability of computer systems in the U.S. military installations and government facilities which have been easily hacked in early 1998. Despite being called "the most organized and systematic attack" to date by the U.S. Department of Defense, these attacks were not the work of an organized terrorist group or nation; rather, authorities believe two northern California teenagers under an Israeli computer hacker were responsible for breaking into these systems, simply because they could. Foretelling these attacks, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection of the U.S. announced in October, 1997 that the increasing dependence of the U.S. critical infrastructures on information and communications has made them vulnerable to information warfare attacks. The commission found that while these resources needed to conduct a physical attack against these infrastructures have not dramatically changed, the resources necessary to launch a comparable-scale attack via information warfare are commonplace and consist of a personal computer and an Internet connection.