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computer intrusion

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An incident of unauthorized access to data or an automated information system.


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The United States makes it illegal to just break into a computer and has created a special statute to criminalize computer intrusion.
Little was done to evaluate computer intrusion detection systems (IDSs) prior to the evaluations conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory under the sponsorship of the DARPA in 1998.
But there is much more illegal and unauthorized activity going on in cyberspace than corporations may admit to their clients, business partners, stockholders, and law enforcement, says Patrice Rapalus, director of the Computer Security Institute, which prepared the survey with the FBI's Computer Intrusion Squad in San Francisco.
 
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