Brian Vigneaux, a special agent in the FBI's Cleveland office, helped get the InfraGard ball rolling in 1996, and he is surprised at how quickly the initiative was embraced. But people have really taken this project and kept it moving. The big success, according to Vigneaux, is the new relationship between the FBI and local security experts. We already had good relationships started. Dave Strothcamp, computer security professional at a Cleveland emergency services facility, was a charter InfraGard member and gives whole-hearted support to the project.
Hackers have their own support groups to share information.
Ditto at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Before long investigators discovered that several military computer systems had been breached. The intruders gained entry via the computers' domain name servers, which are used to route information within secure networks. Potentially, these intrusions could have disrupted U.S. military communications worldwide. In July the two pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of juvenile delinquency.