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A sharp increase in hacks of U.S. web sites is expected following any U.S. retaliation for Tuesday\'s
attacks:

Security experts and federal cyber-crime officials are bracing for a surge in nefarious Internet activity once the U.S. retaliates for Tuesday\'s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. . . . Chris Rouland, director of “X-Force,” the research and development team for Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc., said aside from a few loosely organized denial-of-service attacks against sites in the Middle East, ISS hasn’t yet seen signs of a corresponding cyber-threat. Yet, that is likely to change in the coming days, Rouland said, as U.S. authorities zero in on the source of the attacks and take retaliatory action.

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