Word: hacker
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...trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany
...trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany
...loophole and bringing in auditors to assess the security of the network. “They made a lot of really good changes,” says Nettifee of the fallout.The point, however, remains the same. Information transmitted over the internet is inherently vulnerable, whether one is a sophisticated hacker or simply a layman with access to a web browser. Even with a sophisticated security systems and round-the-clock experts at its disposal, Harvard is unable to protect student information all the time. “The biggest problem is people not thinking about things,” says...
...rise of the hacker as extortionist reflects a broader change in hacker culture. "It used to be teenagers looking for bragging rights," says Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute, a security think tank. "Now it's done for profit." And it's done from anywhere in the world, so catching the bad guys can be complicated. Ullrich estimates that there are 10 or 20 cases a day, compared with virtually none three years ago. More sophisticated viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious code, meanwhile, are the new weapons of choice for committing identity theft, bank fraud...
...Michael Kramer, a former fashion-industry executive, was the victim of a hacker who stole his identity and went on a shopping spree with his credit card info. It was one of his first encounters with the wilds of the Internet. Kramer, 43, whose background is in marketing, saw opportunity in the crime. "The initial idea was to set up voice authentication to avoid that kind of thing again," he says...