| As you type, criminal hackers could be recording your bank login and password information. |
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| My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers. |
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| The lack of protection means that e-mails and sensitive computer files can be accessed by hackers using little more than a laptop and an antenna. |
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| By contrast, only 10 per cent quizzed during the poll identified malicious hackers as the largest threat to security. |
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| This week's hackers were believed to be government sponsored, which would explain the high-level expertise these white hats showed. |
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| Exploitation of the latest flaw is straightforward, according to Polish white hat hackers iSec, which unearthed both problems. |
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| Businesses with trade secret sensitivities might want to consider less formal protection strategies such as white hat hackers. |
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| He's a workaholic whose goal is to be the first man to put hackers permanently out of business. |
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| A court-appointed expert found the electronic systems wide open to tampering by hackers. |
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| Once they have access to the telephone system, the hackers are able to reconfigure it and then make as many calls as they want. |
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| Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies controlled by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week. |
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| They invent a new form of copyright protection which is then broken by hackers. |
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| They've learned that in the stealthy world of computer hacking, staying on your toes and a step ahead of hackers can pay rich rewards. |
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| Microsoft rushed a fix out, but not as fast as the hackers jumped on the exploit. |
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| He's steadfastly maintained his innocence, claiming that hackers used his computer to commit the crimes. |
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| Instead, data traffic travels through the IP backbone or another public network, which offers hackers enough opportunities for their work. |
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| A growing method through which hackers exploit legitimate websites is the placing of malicious adverts, known as malvertising. |
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| Readers of the world's biggest newspaper website were subjected to a malvertising attack after hackers fraudulently bought advertising space. |
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| It also attempts to open a backdoor on infected Windows PCs, allowing hackers to exploit compromised systems. |
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| Today's Financial Times reports about a group of computer hackers who tried to pull off one of the biggest bank robberies ever. |
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| Mr Hay said the hackers had spared no thought for his clients trying to trace old friends and colleagues. |
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| Articles on hackers and hacking increasingly use sensationalist tone and language. |
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| For example, if bitcoin becomes successful, the way anarchists and hackers like it, it will extremely hard to centralize money ever again. |
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| New techniques allow criminal hackers to compromise legitimate sites to download malware to your computer. |
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| Rootkits are the ultimate backdoor, giving hackers ongoing and virtually undetectable access to the systems they exploit. |
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| What happened to the good old days, when we waited for kernel hackers to buy the unsupported laptops first and get them going for the rest of us? |
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| A small upstart company making a small operating system would not present much of a target to hackers, and would thus pay negligible premiums. |
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| Your company has a firewall, but criminal hackers often access internal networks without a computer. |
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| He installed a firewall to protect against hackers, a virus protection program to stop online bugs. |
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| More experienced hackers with programming skills develop hacker programs and post them to the Web and to bulletin board systems. |
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| The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers or spies looking for intelligence. |
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| There are also concerns that hackers could break into those voting machines and vote more than once. |
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| They also sought to tap into public discourse about hackers as copyright pirates, criminals, and spreaders of computer viruses. |
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| The Balkans War and the capture of a US spyplane in China both saw hackers for both sides go into action. |
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| Kevin could be perfectly positioned to take his place in the dark reign of hackers and spammers. |
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| If run, a remote access component allows hackers to gain remote access to infected computers. |
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| Without anonymity, he says, unwanted advertisers or other hackers could tap into users' personal information. |
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| Such measures are generally recognized to be ineffective against hackers while blocking legitimate users. |
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| The hackers used off-the-shelf malware to wipe the firm's computers, a cyberweapon they probably bought on the Internet black market. |
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| The computer company has to answer what guarantees it is prepared to give that home users are safe from hackers. |
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| The goal is to make each password as difficult for hackers to decipher as possible. |
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| The worm opens a backdoor onto infected computers which allows hackers to gain access. |
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| Enthusiastic hackers unpicked the code and used it to write versions of their own. |
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| Librarians also are more likely to be involved in direct communication with end users than are most free software hackers. |
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| While some home users, hackers and hobbyists have switched to Linux or other Open Source software, businesses seem to have been more cautious. |
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| This paper provides a thorough analysis of the mainstream media representation of hackers, hacking, hacktivism, and cyberterrorism. |
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| But resourceful hackers have found ways to solve Captchas, and he has had to rethink the program. |
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| Did you know the word woot originated from the early eighties and was used by hackers when they gained root access to a system? |
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| Last year he helped expose a bug that was allowing hackers to hijack AOL Instant Messenger accounts. |
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| As a result a maliciously constructed message might allow hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a target system with superuser privilege. |
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| You could hardly design a more hospitable environment for hackers if you tried. |
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| You'll meet authors and artists, mothers and fathers, cops and lawyers, gamers and hackers, cooks and waitresses, humorists and essayists. |
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| He would like to be able to passively identify the various scanning tools hackers and others use to find vulnerable wireless networks. |
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| In plain English, clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site. |
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| In fact, clueful corporate entities can get together with free-range hackers to improve everybody's environment. |
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| Pharming is another online scam, in which hackers download 'crimeware' to the users' computer. |
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| But it seems that the hackers who share this knowledge are still only taking a side glance at the possibilities of phone hacking. |
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| When hackers aren't breaking in to your network and all is quiet, everyone stops thinking about infosec. |
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| Properly crafted computer instructions appended to the text will then be executed by the machine, giving hackers a way in. |
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| The company plugs one hole or advises customers to take a certain measure, and the hackers find four ways around it. |
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| The possibilities include adding extra points for financially motivated hackers, or for intruders that invade an individual's privacy. |
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| But under the banner of cybercrime, hackers have also been written into the definition of a terrorist. |
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| The sophistication of hackers engaged in cyberespionage means they are likely to breach any organization's security eventually. |
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| In the end, hackers or cyberterrorists wanting to infiltrate any system badly enough will get in, says Clarke. |
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| The discourse is shifting from hackers as criminals to hackers as cyberterrorists. |
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| We interviewed members of Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit as well as the criminals and hackers who profit from cybertheft. |
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| The telephone survey of some 1,000 companies found that firewalls were the main line of defence against hackers for most companies. |
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| Formidable programmers, these hackers produced and debugged computer code at an astonishing rate. |
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| If you have a dedicated Internet connection or if you want to protect your small business from hackers, I think this book will help you. |
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| Other hackers, most notably the Chaos Computer Club, have criticised The Dispatchers, a loose-knit collective of more than 60 defacers. |
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| Like all good hackers, I have been programming since junior high, using my dad's account on the University of New Mexico IBM 360 mainframe. |
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| The hackers at MIT fed their computers on punched tape, which they kept in an open, unlocked drawer. |
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| Tomlinson added there was a growing trend for hackers and graffiti artists to target the remote offices of global companies for attack. |
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| Additional protection is offered against spyware and web diallers, while an integrated firewall keeps out hackers. |
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| And certainly, in these days of computer viruses, electronic hackers and the like, who is to say that he doesn't have a point? |
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| If encryption is not enabled, hackers can easily use a sniffer to listen in on wireless network traffic. |
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| The security hole could be exploited by malicious hackers or a future internet worm. |
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| Perhaps the greatest threat is their contacts with other hackers who are more than willing to dox them. |
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| He claimed that we'd all be a lot safer if researchers would keep details about vulnerabilities to themselves, and stop arming hackers with offensive tools. |
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| Another one of the hackers shared some of the backgrounds of gnosis group members. |
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| Problems in the way this was implemented in Internet Explorer left the door open for hackers to easily trick users into running malicious code on their machines. |
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| Another set of hackers that goes by the name the Lizard Squad told the Washington Post that they helped with the Sony hack. |
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| Of course Hollywood had no problem with hackers as long as it was the United States government they were hacking. |
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| So long as the network is adequately protected, hackers can be kept at bay and prevented from stealing the personal information required to commit frauds in your name. |
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| On Oct. 1, the FBI, along with private security experts, took the unusual step of publicizing the top 20 ways that hackers tamper with computer systems. |
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| The North Korean hackers have proven to be a persistent adversary, if not the most skilled one. |
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| From computer hackers to ham radio operators, from audio and videophiles to hot rodders, enthusiast cultures have often proved integral to the lives of technologies. |
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| If you're accessing the Internet without properly securing your computer, hackers can gain illegal access to your files-often without your knowledge. |
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| These hackers have incrementally more powerful computers, but what are they doing? |
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| The result was a partnership between 2XS, Tenebaum's company, and the IIU, now self-described white hat hackers aiming at a defensive role in the mid-East cyberwar. |
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| Today, the hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace promised further attacks against Sony Pictures Entertainment. |
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| As if to illustrate the rampant sexism that still exists, hackers threatened to release nude photos of her after her speech. |
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| This seems a little harsh especially when we consider that an attempt by hackers to access the back-end system behind the website failed, according to reports. |
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| The attacks are often coordinated by a botnet, a web of compromised computers acting at the whim of the hackers behind the attack. |
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| This time, supermodel Cara Delevingne, actress Anna Kendrick and more have been targeted by hackers. |
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| A much larger issue is whether people and companies who disclose vulnerabilities are blameworthy when hackers write exploits that target that vulnerability. |
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| The primary goal of the hackers, the company said, were the Gmail accounts of human rights activists, although none of the targeted accounts were breached. |
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| The program is innovative, clever, a pleasure to work with and one of the rare open-source projects designed with end users, not just hackers, in mind. |
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| This shortcoming creates a means for hackers to spam users with a maliciously constructed email designed to trigger this buffer overflow condition. |
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| Many here believe that hackers are already cruising around metropolitan areas in cars and on bicycles, with their laptops listening for the beacons of wireless networks. |
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| And in informal talks, Chinese leaders have compared hackers on both sides to unruly children who can only barely be controlled. |
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| Once the hackers gain access to systems they download proprietary information, customer databases, and credit card information before trying to blackmail victims. |
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| Pyongyang hackers, according to numerous reports, used Chinese IP addresses for their attacks on Sony. |
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| The U.S. hackers sent fake text messages to insurgent fighters and roadside bombers. |
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| In light of this linguistic shift from pirates and hackers to users and consumers, the name-calling can be seen as serving a very specific and insidious function. |
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| From creeps and trolls to hoaxes and hackers, these are the things that made us want to say sayonara to the Interwebs this year. |
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| If you attach a new, unpatched and unprotected computer to the internet then it can easily be under the control of hackers within a matter of minutes. |
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| The hackers maintain, however, that the minify hole has been alive and well. |
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| Somehow, though, large amounts that were going to the hackers were buried from her gaze. |
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| The hackers managed to infiltrate the system with sophisticated keylogging software that would have enabled them to track every button pressed on computer keyboards. |
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| A keylogger is a form of malware program that installs itself surreptitiously, records keystrokes made on the infected computer and sends this data to hackers. |
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| Imagine if hackers from Saudi Arabia said that any TV station in America broadcasting feminists and gays would be attacked? |
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| But why would a group of hackers who pride themselves on dissidence develop such a conscience? |
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| The bug created a means for hackers to inject malware into vulnerable Windows boxes providing a user can be induced into viewing a maliciously constructed image. |
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| A majority of hackers are simply motivated by thrill-seeking. |
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| The pages were hacked by means of a zero-day vulnerability found in the new Facebook profiles, the hackers claim. |
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| Zombies can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information. |
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| There are often steps taken by hackers to use sophisticated mathematical formulas to encrypt their communications. |
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| Should you strike back against hackers if the police can't do anything? |
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| There have been reports of a city, often suggested to be in Brazil, having its electricity cut off by extortionist hackers. |
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| India is to unleash a hit squad of teen hackers to fight cybercrime. |
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| Would-be computer hackers can now study the tricks of the trade at university, providing they first sign a pledge agreeing not to break the law with their new skills. |
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| The vast cache of sensitive data could be used for an almost limitless number of fraudulent purposes by hackers. |
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| The latest virus, called Cyberlocker, involves gangs of hackers from eastern Europe who are holding PC users' data to ransom. |
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| We need to make our network more secure against attacks by hackers. |
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| Richard A. Petke announces formation of Beta lota Tau, a new fraternity for campus computer freaks, knurds, hackers and assorted hangers on. |
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| Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users. |
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| To attack your organization, social engineering hackers exploit the credulity, laziness, good manners, or even enthusiasm of your staff. |
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| Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find. |
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| Now hackers are threatening to bomb any theater that shows it. |
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| Even hackers would only find random numbers and keywords and could not route it back to personal information. |
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| A pair of hackers have won USD13,854 in prize money after succeeding with an attempt to get Windows XP running on an Apple Mac computer. |
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| Modern-day hackers can recognize your PIN numbers from ATM keypads using a digital infrared camera. |
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| Chinese hackers stole source code and wormed their way into Gmail. |
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| There are viruses, e-mail viruses, worms and Trojan horses, and hackers out there building these germs don't stick to a single type. |
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| Its Managed Broadband Service is designed to protect small and medium-sized enterprises from hackers and viral infectors. |
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| At that moment the world changed for oil and gas companies, as well as for robotization sellers, hackers, criminals and even governments. |
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| With Bluesnarfing, also called Bluejacking, hackers use a laptop which scans to find Bluetooth-compatible phones which can then be targeted. |
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| Spear phishing is an email that appears to be from an individual or business you know, but it is actually criminal hackers. |
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| Honeypots are real hosts that are passively made visible to hackers in the hope that they will offer an attractive decoy target. |
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| The Honker Union, China s most famous group of Hong Ke, shows the grey area between patriotic hackers and the state. |
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| And the Citi hackers didn't get to the three-digit numbers that appear on the backs of credit cards, a security feature known as the CVV code. |
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| The group also said that they do not deface or hack websites randomly, but instead focus their highly targeted attacks on past defacements by Indians hackers. |
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| None have claimed responsibility for the defacement of the domains, but according to most bloggers, the hackers left a message in Turkish on the Google page. |
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| The important aspect of this, he said, was to legislate effective punishment for cybercriminals and hackers, perhaps involving jail terms ranging from six months to 10 years. |
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| The Internet has been much ballyhooed recently in the press, but until the last year or so, it had been pretty much a playground for accomplished computer hackers. |
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| A nondictionary password is harder for malicious hackers to guess. |
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| The Internet has become a means of survival in the business world, yet computers with constant DSL or cable Internet connections are particularly susceptible to hackers. |
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| In 2012, following a BBC Panorama report, allegations were made that News Corp subsidiary NDS Group had used hackers to undermine pay TV rivals around the world. |
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| The group took responsibility for the attack, which was part of ongoing Anonymous activity in protest against the deportation of hackers as part of Operation TrialAtHome. |
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| There are also indications that worms evolving into a kind of cyberweapon. In a recent series of attacks between US and Chinese hackers, a worm was used. |
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| The band of hackers who left a trail of sabotaged websites over the last two months have unexpectedly announced it planning to hit the escape key on their operations. |
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| The names, addresses, dates of births and banking details have all be accessed by hackers in a cyber attack on a division of Carphone Warehouse which took place on Friday. |
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| After securing the computer against antivirus tools, previous hackers, and detection by the user, the botherder might check to see what else might be here. |
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| But between these efforts is a divide that opens these critical systems to threats ranging from teenage hackers to state-sponsored cyberterrorists. |
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