U.S. Officials Predict Cyberattacks from Terrorists

Government officials are warning that cyberattacks are likely as retribution for the United States campaign in Afghanistan, and at the same time, computer security experts are seeing increasingly numerous and more powerful attacks from traditional hackers.Calling cybersecurity the "gaping hole" in the nation's infrastructure defense plans, Frank J. Cilluffo, an expert on terrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said, "It is only a matter of time before the convergence of bad guys and good stuff occurs."