Chinese hackers attack NYC police department

As if dealing with crime every day wasn't enough, the New York City police department now has hackers trying to invade their turf. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said last week that hackers make at least 70,000 attempts every day to access the police computer systems. Not surprisingly most of the attacks originated from computers with IP addresses in China and the Netherlands, according to an article in Newsday.

However, the IT behind the largest police force in the United States is tough and all attempts to break into computers have failed. "It's a threat we must continue to pay close attention to every day," he said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He compared the attacks on the police computers to the recent hacking of the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project. "It's roughly like taking a pail of water and throwing it against the wall to see where the leaks are," the commissioner told Newsday.

For more on these hack attacks:
- check out this WSJ.com article

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