Word: hackers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hacker Closes Rice Network...
...hacker's attack last month forced Rice University to shut down its student computer network and to sever its link to the Internet...
Kevin B. Long, director of computing services at Rice, said the hacker's assault was so sophisticated that the system had to be shut down...
...lucky, some good samaritan will come along and log her off. If she is unlucky, she may come back the next day and find herself not able to get into her account as a result of some hacker's installing a new password unknown...
Actually, a hacker of this kind is unlikely to deem it worth his time to break into your account by spending hours if not days in an attempt to "crack" your password. What such hackers love to do is to get the "super-user" privilege on a UNIX system such as the ones Harvard uses so that they can play God on the victimized system...