Nelson 'Hacked Off' Over Cyber Intruders
High-tech intruders thought to be in China recently hacked into computers in Sen. Bill Nelson's Washington, D.C. office. Two attacks on the same day this month and another last month targeted work stations used by three of the Florida Democrat's staffers -- a key foreign-policy aide, the deputy legislative director and a former Nelson NASA adviser. The hackers didn't make off with any classified information, which isn't kept on office computers, a Nelson spokesman said in a press release. Similar incursions on Capitol Hill IT networks are up significantly in the past few months, according to various congressional information systems offices.
Nelson, a member of the Senate Intelligence, Armed Services and Finance committees, has joined Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, in cosponsoring legislation aimed at bolstering U.S. defenses against such attacks. "The threat to our national security, to be sure, is real; and, it will require significant investment and inter-agency coordination at an unprecedented level to gain an upper hand against would-be cyber criminals and spies," Nelson said last week. "These are anxious days, when you consider the threat from such espionage facing our country and recent developments on this front."
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