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...friends. Cagri, who "invitates" any young women coming to his hometown of Izmir to stay in his home, has provoked Clinton-based parodies, flash animations and a large Web fan club. He told the Turkish press that the site was a joke perpetrated on him by a teenage hacker, and reported the theft of his original Web page to the police. Cagri, who follows Islamic custom by praying five times a day, says he's alarmed by the thousands of e-mails he receives daily, mostly from women. Now he might be the one "invitated" abroad to barter his fame...
...HACKER INSURANCE With hackers seemingly able to break into even the most secure systems at big corporations, small businesses have been reluctant to take orders and credit-card payments online--fewer than a third of them do. But where there's fear, there's opportunity. A handful of insurance companies offer antihacker policies to small companies. For $1,500 a year, INSUREtrust.com covers up to $5 million for hacker-induced losses, including third-party lawsuits. Similar policies are offered by Evanston Insurance Co. and Lloyd's of London. Alas, none of these policies will bail you out when you crash...
...other bad news on cable modems--and this is why I'm a little mollified that I can't have one yet--is that they're more vulnerable to hacker attacks than regular set-ups. You see, one of the strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along...
...most common attack reported by hacker watchers makes use of a Trojan horse. These are programs with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing. Once you open it, you've installed the software--and the wily hacker has remote control of your...
...sure, dial-up users get hit by Trojans too. But all the extra bandwidth provided by cable modems makes hackers salivate. If you've hooked up a microphone, the remote-access hacker can listen to your conversations in real-time. If you own one of those little monitor-top video cameras, he can watch you like Big Brother...