Word: network
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy is it to hack? If these guys can teach a novice like me how to break through a firewall, I figure, then all our networks are in trouble. Guess what? All our networks--at least, the ones without encryption keys or extremely alert administrators--are in trouble. Why? Because this is the information age, and the average computer gives up far too much information about itself. Because a network is only as strong as its weakest user. And because the most common log-on password in the world, even in non-English speaking countries, is "password." With users like...
...first class, we have no problem rooting around in the Web servers of a top Internet company. We find three open ports on the firewall and a vulnerable mail server. "This network is a f___ing mess," says a classmate. "We need to have a word with these people...
...even know about it. Hacking doesn't require much hardware; even a Palm Pilot can do it. What protection do you have? "Minimize enticements," say the teachers. If you don't want to be a victim of information rape, in other words, don't let your network give out so many details to strangers...
...Steve Forbes bought enough TV ads to fill a network. For his second presidential campaign, he's hiring enough people to staff one. The publishing tycoon, who plans to make it official this week, is rolling out a team that dwarfs his rivals'. "Forbes' strategy has been, If it moves, hire it," says Senator John Ashcroft, a onetime rival...
Market leader CNN (owned by TIME parent Time Warner) has its own problems. Its prime-time audience is the only one of the three to decline from a year ago. Yet CNN chief Rick Kaplan says the network will continue to stress the breadth of its coverage. "I don't want to put the network in a situation where if there's no news, we pick out the most tabloid story and talk about that for a whole day," he says. "Our core news viewer wants...