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...what exactly is hacking? Although this term is widely used, there is no precise definition that is understood by all. Osterberg uses the term hacking simply to mean "breaking...
...There are some extreme measures that could technically be taken to provide an extremely high level of network security," Osterberg says. "However, those measures would significantly impact the usability of the network...
...Changing your password is one of the most important things you can do to maintain the security of your own FAS e-mail account," Osterberg says. "Each insecure individual account is a weak link in the chain, which may allow a malicious outside user to gain access to our system. By doing what we can to maintain the security of the individual accounts, we increase the overall security of the system as a whole...
...becoming more active in making security bulletining available to the user community through that newsgroup," Osterberg says. "I believe we've seen a large increase in overall awareness of computer security issues, which to me means that our outreach is starting to work. There is more to be done, of course, but we're starting to make progress...
...malicious computer use is considered hacking. For example, there is a "denial of service attack." "This is an attack where the attacker doesn't actually break into a remote system but does something to render the remote system unusable by flooding it with information in some way," Osterberg says...