Borders, Transit Top Security Spending
WASHINGTON - Preventing terrorists from hacking into computer systems that run the nation’s power grid and other vital networks gets a new emphasis in President Bush’s proposed budget for homeland security.The president would spend at least $294 million for the Homeland Security Department to protect federal networks from hackers, including $83 million to deploy a program that monitors intrusions on federal networks. That’s a nearly 40 percent increase over what has been spent for that purpose this year. An additional $39 million would be dedicated to cyber security programs at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Much of the funding for the administration’s cyber security initiative is part of the classified Intelligence budget.”An unfortunate consequence of living in a networked, technological-dependent world is that terrorists and others seek to use our own technology against us, including the Internet,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday.
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