FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR: To national security issues now, terrorist concerns, and the focus today on cyber-terrorism, which President Clinton says is a very real and growing threat. He talked about the dangers hackers pose this morning. CNN's Gene Randall is at the White House now with more -- Gene.</s>GENE RANDALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Frank, in 1998, the president commissioned a study on ways to protect the country from those bent on disrupting its computer systems. It has been released, and with the Y2K challenge apparently met, Mr. Clinton wants a 17 percent increase in federal spending on computer security. The administration coordinator for security, critical infrastructure and counter- terrorism, a short time ago, talked about the nature of the threat.</s>RICHARD CLARK, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: There's a spectrum, from the teenage hacker who sort of joyrides in cyberspace up through industrial espionage, up through fraud and theft, and up at the far end of the spectrum, to another country using information warfare against our infrastructure.</s>RANDALL: Included in the White House plan, federal cash for college scholarships to produce what the president calls a new generation of computer experts, one required to do public service in exchange for the education dollars. Gene Randall, CNN, the White House.
President Clinton Unveils Plan to Heighten Nation's Computer Security