BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: The United States government is stepping up its efforts to find those behind this week's sabotage of several high-profile Web businesses. Our CNN Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas joins us now with the latest on that -- Pierre.</s>PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Bernie, the FBI is pursuing leads that the attacks on popular Web sites were launched from high-capacity university or business computers systems. According to government sources, the attackers infected those computer systems with denial-of-service programs. Those programs, in turn, forced the university or business systems to send out millions of messages to overload the affected Web sites. The growing threat has law enforcement struggling to keep pace. The Clinton administration is asking Congress to increase funding for the Justice Department's anti-cybercrime efforts by more than a third, from roughly $100 million to $137 million.</s>ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ASST. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I think we've also recognize that we do need additional people, we need additional forensic capabilities. This is, as everybody understands, a fast- changing area. In order to keep up with those who would do the kinds of things that we're concerned about now, we're going to have to spend additional amounts of money, do a lot of training just to keep current.</s>THOMAS: This is a fast-changing problem. The U.S. government has been trying to deal with this problem even as the government comes along. In fact, we are told by sources that the cyber-bandits have been quick to exploit these difficulties even as the FBI tries to investigate -- Bernie.</s>SHAW: Pierre, what's the next step?</s>THOMAS: Bernie, what we're being told is that the FBI is systematically going through logs, trying to track these basic computer signals that were sent out by these computers back to the original source. It's a very time-consuming process, but they think that they are making some progress.</s>SHAW: OK, thank you, Pierre Thomas.
U.S. Government Stepping Up Efforts to Find Cyber-Vandals