Web Security & Commerce

In the early morning hours of Saturday, August 17, 1996, a computer system at the U.S. Department of
Justice was attacked. The target of the attack was the Department of Justice's web server, www.usdoj.gov.
The attackers compromised the server's security and modified its home page - adding swastikas, obscene
pictures, and a diatribe against the Communications Decency Act (which, ironically, had recently been
declared unconstitutional by a federal court in Philadelphia).