CBS Evening News - 2000-02-09
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[0:02] A Regis exclusive and the fashion victim
[0:05] of the week on 18.
[0:08] The crime of the new century. High-tech
[0:11] criminals shut down more internet sites
[0:13] and shake up Wall Street. We'll take you
[0:16] inside a secret bunker that shields web
[0:19] providers from cyber terror. A key piece
[0:22] of evidence is recovered in the Alaska
[0:24] Airlines crash. And a long dry winter in
[0:27] the heartland could mean higher food
[0:29] bills for you.
[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:37] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:40] headquarters in New York.
[0:42] Good evening. Imagine hundreds of cars
[0:45] are hijacked at once and used to block
[0:47] every entrance to a national chain
[0:49] store. The electronic equivalent is
[0:52] happening to some of the biggest
[0:54] companies on the internet. Hackers are
[0:56] using ejacked computers to flood
[0:59] websites with so many phony requests for
[1:01] data they have to shut down. CBS's
[1:04] Sandra Hughes reports on a wave of
[1:06] high-tech crime and the government's vow
[1:08] to stop it.
[1:10] >> The most popular sites on the internet
[1:12] are under attack. Cyber criminals took
[1:15] aim at Yahoo, Buy.com, and the online
[1:17] auction site eBay, shutting down their
[1:20] web businesses.
[1:21] >> Clearly, it's an outside source that is
[1:23] attempting to attack eBay. We have never
[1:25] experienced anything like this before.
[1:27] >> Book seller Amazon.com got hit and this
[1:30] morning, what many feared most, attacks
[1:32] on stock market trading sites. Daycheek
[1:35] and Erade became the latest victims of
[1:37] the hackers. It's not known why they did
[1:39] it, maybe just to prove they could. But
[1:42] the Justice Department is taking the
[1:43] attacks very ser