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Article: EPA Closes Web Site After Hill Disclosure
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 18, 2000
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The Environmental Protection Agency took down its Web site late
Wednesday evening after a member of Congress publicized information
from the General Accounting Office indicating that the site was
vulnerable to cyber-terrorism.
The decision to take down the site, which provides information on
a variety of environmental topics to millions of visitors each month,
was part of "ongoing efforts to prevent computer hacking," the EPA
said in a prepared statement.
EPA said it took the action after a meeting Wednesday in which
computer security experts "warned that the public attention brought
to the agency's potential computer vulnerabilities made EPA a likely
target for hackers."
Privately, EPA ...