Hackers heat up network security industry.

Rio de Janeiro and Sco Paulo, 03/16/00 - The wave of attacks by hackers on the principal websites and gateways is causing a strong increase in business for network security companies in Brazil.

The Brazilian subsidiary of US company Internet Security Systems (ISS), for example, received 12 emergency calls in one day. During normal days, the average is to receive two or three of these calls. The demand has been so strong that the company expects to close the first quarter of the year with an income the same as the whole of last year: $7.5 million.

"We are reviewing our income estimates for 2000," said ISS chairman for Brazil and the Mercosur Leonardo Scudere. Previous estimates, of $15 million, have been exceeded by a new estimate of at least $25 million.

(Carlos Vasconcellos, Gazeta Mercantil - Translated by Barney Whiteoak)

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-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 16, 2000