In fact, the FBI over the last couple of years has paid special bonuses to recruit and hire people with excellent computer skills to track down hackers, crackers, and thieves. In the globalHell case, a number of the denial of service attacks on the government were believed by some to be copy-cat attacks. So in this instance, it could not be ruled out that a number of people unrelated to each other are committing the attack. However, due to the fact that all the attacks had the common theme of no bragging rights, it potentially makes it more likely that it was either the same person or persons. Handling international cyber attacks is difficult because either most foreign nations have not recognized it as a crime, or have not decided how they will coordinate with other nations to assist in the investigation of cyber criminals.
Hackers know that using foreign servers and platforms is a great way to hide their identity.
ET Well, as most technical experts will tell you, it is difficult to prevent a denial of service attack from happening to you because commercial e-sites operate with the intention that all customers will have access to them. The only way to deny data being flooded to your site is to cut the particular server sending that information to you off. And in fact, the FBI's national infrastructure protection center, also knows as NIPC, recommends a number of tools that systems administrators can use to ensure that their systems are not unwittingly, or unknowingly, being used to cause a denial of service attacks. And thanks to everyone in our audience for participating in this live event. The Web Copyright 2000 ABC News Internet Ventures.