All this due to a NSA data center situated in the state.
We had peaks in the past year or so that were over 300,000,000 a day.
According to the state officials, most of the attacks are done by botnets.
Hacking programs set in motion by them sweep the states computer systems, searching for signs of weakness.
Although other states were seeing increases, most were not seeing anything like we were, Squires said.
Though the state officials concede that it may not be Utahs only big target for hackers.
The official chose to remain anonymous for fear of drawing hackers interest.
But that doesnt seem to have deterred the hackers from trying.
source: www.techworm.net
