Fortunately, the attack, which took place earlier in 2005, was thwarted by parliament's sophisticated internet security system; no sensitive data is thought to have been lost.
The country's Internet security system reacted so swiftly to the initial calls for an uprising, activists say, that virus-spreading e-mails directed at the dissidents might have also carried the dates and times of protests, accidentally spreading the news.
"Wanted -- dead or alive!" joked Patrick Gray, director of emergency response services for Internet Security Systems, a company based in Atlanta.
The companies include Cingular Wireless, WorldCom and Internet Security Systems, and even national consulting concerns like Accenture.
The upshot is a new, more integral role for security, said Tom Noonan, the chief executive of Internet Security Systems, a security company based in Atlanta.
When we're constantly connected, will we just be opening our bank accounts to every smart amoral kid with a basic knowledge of internet security systems?
Attacks this spring on the Web sites of several companies, including Sony and Bethesda Softworks, a video game developer, exploited holes in Internet security systems that are meant to protect hundreds of thousands of private user accounts.
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For some of them can be exploited not just against enemy states or cybercriminals, but against common internet security systems – Schneier identifies products made by Cisco, Fortinet, Topsec, WatchGuard and Juniper, for example.
The Nokia Security Platform (NSP) is a group of UNIX-based appliances that provide easy, integrated access to third-party software such as FireWall-1 or Internet Security Systems' (ISS) RealSecure intrusion detection platform.
Dane Lewis, an analyst at Robertson Stephens Inc., downgraded a group of network storage and security companies, including EMC, which was off $12.19, to $54.31; Veritas, down $21.50, to $66; Network Appliance, off $12.75, to $51.44; and Internet Security Systems, off $13.25, to $65.19.
