By Shawn P. McCarthy, Government Computer News.
Hackers have help breaking into government networks.
They share their resources and techniques on special mail lists and encrypted chat areas. Government security administrators are taking a similar team approach to combat the intruders. A small group of government network security experts has been using the method with industry counterparts. The exchanges have helped them form a consensus, though not full agreement, on what to do when an intruder penetrates a private network via the Internet. The Shadow group includes representatives from several Defense Department sites, the Geological Survey and Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.