Word: hackers
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...evening last week, residents of the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun thought they were about to watch a special about their rubber-stamp parliament in Beijing. They got some special programming all right?brought to them by the Falun Gong movement, Public Enemy No. 1 of the Chinese state. Hacker devotees had spliced their way into the cable system in Changchun, birthplace of Falun Gong founding guru Li Hongzhi, and broadcast to as many as 300,000 households. Stunned city officials held an emergency meeting and swore to punish followers "with no leniency"?but the damage was done...
...targets are not your stereotypical teenage hacker,” Customs Service Assistant Commissioner John Varrone told the Associated Press...
...Many sites don’t encrypt Webmail, which means your password and all your e-mail are travelling in clear text, and any hacker can get at them,” Davis wrote in an e-mail to the Winthrop House e-mail list...
...HACKER THREAT...
...letting employees use wireless devices to tap into their company's local network. But they may be letting strangers in as well. A recent report by Cigital, a software-security company based in Dulles, Va., says the programs that facilitate wireless connections could make a network vulnerable to hackers. The software contains the addresses of all the machines that employees can access with their laptops, including the main servers at work. A skilled hacker could manipulate the software to gain access to all information on the internal network and could "effectively become the administrator of the network," says Cigital...