| Technical experts have warned Congress that little can be done to prevent the outbreak of even worse computer viruses than the “Love Bug” that wreaked havoc on the Internet not long ago.
In testimony prepared for the House Science Subcommittee on Technology, several referred to it as a wake-up call to the growing threat from hackers and others to sensitive data stored on hard drives.
The General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative and audit arm of Congress, said the U.S. government is poorly organized to respond. | 