Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...read your magazine religiously every week - I think it is the best weekly publication at Harvard. That's why I was so upset when I saw last week's issue. Apparently, someone had maliciously vandalized the back cover, using a piece of charcoal to scrawl all over your tasteful portrait of a tree...
When a site has been hacked, its appearance is often altered by chest-beating hackers who leave the cyber equivalent of a "Kilroy was here" scrawl. This week's attacks, on the other hand, bombarded various high-traffic sites with an overflow of information, effectively shutting down normal operations. How do the perpetrators send so much data so quickly? Apparently, the most recent assaults are not typical denial of service pranks, which generally are sent from only one or two computers at a time. "These people scan the Internet for vulnerable systems, and they hack into those systems, and then...