Clinton demands security rethink

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President Clinton ordered US agencies to evaluate their computer systems and assess their vulnerability to online attacks. Clinton's directive comes less than a month after internet hackers flooded internet stock broker ETrade, search service Yahoo and other high-profile websites with bogus information requests, crippling their web servers.

President Clinton ordered US agencies to evaluate their computer systems and assess their vulnerability to online attacks. Clinton's directive comes less than a month after internet hackers flooded...

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