Word: agente
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...Brian describes the game as "somewhat like Clue, in which you narrow down the list of boys, find your match, and call him up." He scored the job through a local agent while a junior in high school in Bedford, Massachusetts. Paid $100 to sit for a thirty-minute photo shoot, Brian admits he felt flattered that his photo would soon evoke giggling fits at slumber parties and scribbling frenzies in the margins of marbleized notebooks. His younger sister's friends squealed, "Your brother is the cutest one!" but Brian couldn't help but think, "Hey! Thirteen year-old girls...
Luckily, the attacks did not involve any control of the e-commerce giants' computer networks. In these "distributed denial-of-service" attacks, the attackers found unprotected computers anywhere on the Internet and installed software on them to make them agents, doing the dirty work of the attack. When the time for the attack came, each of the captured agent computers flooded the intended targets, (such as Yahoo) with network requests, making their computers too busy to do anything but respond. The type of attack does not so much resemble breaking into a bank as running in circles inside the revolving...
Given that such an attack is normally executed from a variety of compromised agent computers, it is exceedingly difficult to defend against. With the malicious traffic coming from many different sources, possibly sent with forged return addresses, the systems under attack are unable simply to screen out the attackers and continue business as usual. Indeed, even the best protections can sometimes be overcome by the brute force of thousands of network requests. The implications of such defenselessness are twofold...
...court decision supported by Gore, Bradley 43 Wacko 44 Shopaholics' meccas 45 __ Blue (show that firefighters want boycotted) 47 One of Elian's grandmothers 50 Warner Music chairman Ames 53 Environmental prefix 54 __ Service (Melisse Shapiro e-novel) 55 Give the slip to 56 Use a keyhole 57 Agent's take 58 Targets for McNair...
PACK YOUR BAGS Whiling away your workday dreaming of your next vacation? Better dial your travel agent or get on the Web, because it looks as if Europe is the trip of the year. Last week the euro continued its yearlong decline, slipping below parity with the dollar. It was an important psychological barrier, and experts expect the beleaguered currency will continue its slide over the next few months. On the negative side, that means U.S. exports are getting progressively more expensive for European buyers. But cafes in Paris and pensiones in Rome are getting cheaper...