DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: President Clinton is expected to meet with some of the nation's top computer security experts, next week. At the top of the agenda: the latest wave of hacker attacks. For the latest on the FBI's investigation, we go to our justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas. He is live with us from Washington, this morning. Pierre, good morning.</s>PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn. The FBI is pursuing leads that the attacks on popular Web sites were launched from high-capacity university or business computer systems. According to government sources, the hackers, working perhaps from a small computer, sent commands infecting the larger computer systems with denial-of-service programs. The attackers were then able to command those high-capacity university or business systems to sends millions of messages to overload the affected Web site. Investigators are systematically sifting through Web site and server logs, trying to trace back to the source of the attacks -- Daryn.</s>KAGAN: Pierre, just how difficult is it for officials to try to investigate these cyber-crimes?</s>THOMAS: Well, literally they're going through millions of codes. They also have to deal with the fact that the hackers perhaps covered their electronic trail, perhaps created false addresses. So, this is a very daunting task. The FBI tells me that they are making some pretty significant progress.</s>KAGAN: Pierre Thomas from Washington, thank you.
FBI Investigates Possibility Hackers Used High-Capacity University, Business Systems for This Week's Attacks