Often hacking occurs over state lines. The only way you can find out your vulnerabilities is when you're attacked. It's like anything else on the Internet. If it is out there someone will try to get in. Much of hacking is done through an automated process, Crofton said.
Hackers probe the Web until they find a vulnerable site.
Keith Morgan, chief of information security at Terradon Communications in Nitro, said Terradon's computer system has received 60,000 individual probes since November and his cable modem at home is probed 300 or 400 times a week. He said he didn't know what hackers would want with the West Virginia Press Association's Web site. There are no credit card numbers on the site, which provides information about newspapers. I'm not sure what they were after. I've seen people who leave their hard drives open for the world to see.