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They were designed by the bad hackers to let them log into a system as "root" without the owner knowing.

Meanwhile, there seem to be plenty of other hackers with a similar idea.

Hackers maintain their own for a while, see who did not pay him, quietly closed their communities.

After the incident, when a reporter asked him, he said he did not pass over that picture, he is a the victims of hackers and mischief.

A unifying trait among these hackers was a strong sense of curiosity, sometimes bordering on obsession.

Paganotto said the hackers did not access sensitive information from the sites. He said he was unaware of the source of the attack.

In fact, any piece of digital data can be acquired through moles within the company or hackers operating half a world away.

In the software community , you " lock up " the programming source code as a means of securing it against hackers and competitors .

Many hackers make a lot of money, hesays, and he seems to be plotting his own path.

The very ubiquity of the Windows operating system makes it a favorite with hackers.

It isn't clear how much of the compromised data was viewed by the hackers.

That growth has also made it a target for criminals and hackers, some of whom have broken into user accounts, among other exploits.

Yet corporate sites are full of such holes, which can be identified by hackers using software to scan thousands of sites at a time.

Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a way to create easy-to-remember passwords without making a system more vulnerable to hackers.

That's the main reason we do Y Combinator: to let loose all this energy by making it easy for hackers to start their own startups.

This makes them more sophisticated than the usual assaults mounted by hackers as they search for a way into a company's systems.

The company also pointed out that hackers have been using some of these vulnerabilities to launch attacks to the user's machine.

He added that it was impossible to say whether any hackers had actually exploited the flaw to illegally break into a database.

He said it is possible to change the default settings on Oracle's software to thwart potential hackers looking to exploit the vulnerability.

On June 2nd, a group of hackers calling itself "LulzSec" claimed that it had been able to get into the network of Sony Pictures.

Mr. Colford said the phishing attempt had been blocked, raising the question of how hackers had grabbed credentials for the account.

Thanks to a bit of sloppy code, it also could have let hackers access the banking information for 118, 000 customers who downloaded the app.

Mr Li said he did not know who the hackers were or what they hoped to gain from the attack.

Note that you may not wish to do this as the maximum length of a password may be of use to hackers who are trying to guess the password.

You get a passing grade on the test if the hackers give up and move on to an easier target whose grasp of these concepts is insufficient.

Over time, I've learned to look for threats and put myself between them and my city, calling on other hackers to come and join me.

Security experts call it the soft underbelly of the Internet, and hackers, having drawn first blood, are ripping at it with new enthusiasm.

That sounded reassuring but raised a bunch of questions: Why would hackers post people's passwords on an Internet forum for all to see?

He said hacking was prohibited by Chinese law and that government websites also suffered attacks from hackers.

So, he enlisted hackers from the Minix community to help him flesh out his project.

Twitter accounts seem to be particularly vulnerable to hackers.

This can lead to an insecure system, as hackers may be able to write code to call the EJB directly and bypass the Web tier.

These hackers broke down the code and entered the main computer of the bank.

In India, there has been a lot of discussion in the press about how the country should have its own patriotic hackers.

Hackers can use vulnerable routers to conduct click fraud or DNS cache poisoning attacks or to launch attacks on other systems.

However, I would be careful about drawing together the MPs' expenses row, bankers and phone-hackers in all this.

The scale and high-profile of iCloud makes it a juicy target for hackers.

ITA's hackers seem to be unusually smart, and C is a pretty low-level language.

The company's investigators say that the hackers were likely working from network addresses assigned to China.

The truth is, hackers will always be able to locate vulnerabilities and issue new malicious code to exploit them.

Nude photos of Johansson surfaced online last month, and TMZ reported that hackers stole them from her cellphone.

But it was not always that way. The original hackers were benign creatures. Students, in fact.

The size of the data and the computing power needed mean hackers likely won't be able to eavesdrop on conversations at will, analysts say.

In recent weeks, hackers known as Lulz Security attacked the Web sites of Sony, the United States Senate, the C. I. A. , PBS, among others.

As the sophistication of computer hackers developed, they began to come onto the radar of law enforcement.

The Washington Post can be added to the growing list of American news organizations whose computers have been penetrated by Chinese hackers.

Enterprising hackers from IBM and elsewhere have worked to develop modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of these sensors.

It's not about happy hackers now. It's about organised crime, people making a living out of it.

Last December North Korean hackers caught a glimpse of the plan thanks to a slip on the part of a South Korean officer.

To make matters worse, Halderman discovered that other hackers -- including from Iran and China -- were trying to do the same thing.

Some sites do not have enough network safety protection, throwing the door open to culprits or hackers.

The poor handling of runtime exceptions is another area that hackers will attempt to exploit.

The best way to get hackers to do things was to suggest them, and hope that the hackers would be interested enough.

This can be a problem when some hackers break into systems simply for the fun of it.

Some hackers were trying to penetrate the computer system of the IRS.

However, the mere fact that there's a door to your system is enough to tempt hackers.

Mr. Chen said the hackers on average signed onto accounts three to four times a day.

The instant message address he gave to CNN for the hackers was offline Monday morning.

For the same reason, the open-source nature of the project is also a bulwark against hackers or malware.

Computer hackers used to be mostly sophisticated criminals, high tech spies or new media pranksters.

The Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted US government officials as saying the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber crime gang.

Cross-site scripting (XSS for short) is one of the most common application-level attacks that hackers use to sneak into Web applications.

Rather, he's trying to teach students to think like hackers so they can devise antidotes.

Zhang says if the important private information is stolen by hackers, it would be hard to get compensation from the website.

A student journalist interviewed someone claiming to be a representative of the hackers shortly before the Obama tweets were posted.

Hackers 'will take the first 100 passwords on the list and go through the entire user base' of a website to crack a few accounts, he says.

And an aide said Mousavi's Web site, his primary means of staying in touch with supporters, was taken down by unknown hackers.

A group of code hackers is also busy trying to add decent ACPI and dual-core support.

he does not feel morally obliged to turn "bad" hackers over to the authorities.

Chinese hackers have described the Black Hawk site as an important site, but just one of many.

However, you can make your systems and data impervious enough that hackers won't even bother trying to break in.

What the founder of Unveillance, a computer-network security firm, soon learned was that hackers had broken into his account.

But experts say that the hackers simply learn to trick the system, by making guesses at an acceptable rate, for instance.

This Code is not to prescribe how hackers act. Instead, it is to help us to recognize our own diversity and identify.

So-called brute force attacks, by which hackers try to guess individual passwords, also appear to be on the rise, Mr. Barrett says.

It carries tons of useful pentesting tools and a huge repository of exploits (ways for hackers to gain access to your system).

And finally, since a few good hackers have unbearable personalities, could we stand to have them around?

Mr. Carey said it was unclear whether Yahoo's breach had been contained and noted that hackers could still be inside its systems.

Hackers that use their hacking skills for good are referred to as "white hat" hackers.

These holes are so valuable that hackers would not normally use four of them in a single attack.

And since all the hackers had spent many hours talking to users, we understood online commerce way better than anyone else.

Just make sure you and your system can provide countermeasures for any chat vulnerabilities hackers could exploit.

Hackers have big arguments over them and eventually something gets grabbed out of the machinery that more or less works.

Look out for hackers who might try to break your system.

At one company, the hackers gained access to a corporate server used for processing online credit-card payments.

He worked with a few "black hat" hackers, he said, helping them transfer money and make use of stolen credit cards.

These outfits buy bugs from hackers (euphemistically known as "security researchers" ).

While there's no denying that there are hackers out there with bad intentions, they make up only a small percentage of the hacker community.

Furious gamers left comments including 'I hope it's not related to those hackers. This has got to stop! '

The hacking tools used were mainly of Chinese origin, he said and the hackers didn't take steps to cover their tracks.

The hacking tools used were mainly of Chinese origin, he said and the hackers didn't take steps to cover their tracks.

Once the computer had been hijacked, hackers could use it to steal personal data or send users to fake websites, she added.

Furthermore, each new typist or keyboard required a fresh transcript and training session, limiting the method's appeal to would-be hackers.

Hackers are not the only ones making a killing from plastic.

To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.

A US official has claimed that Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network and read official e-mails.

Thankfully, these individuals represent a very small minority of the expert programmers who consider themselves hackers.

Allows you to understand, all kinds of popular hackers and computer-related news developments!

What about American hackers attacking Chinese computers, or U. S. spammers and fraudsters who target innocent people around the world?

Prevents spyware, hackers and hijackers from installing malicious items on your computer. Erases and updates your PC's activity history.

Germany's chancellery computer systems were reported to have been attacked by Chinese hackers.

Other hackers, equally adept at maintaining their anonymity, have been seeking to penetrate the online aliases of the group's members.

Finally, the last line doesn't allow anybody to log in as root, making life a bit more difficult for hackers.

Trojans can allow hackers to open backdoors on your system , giving them access to your files and even network connectivity .

Officials warned government departments to enhance safeguards of their computer networks, which have become the top target of hackers.

Once the Trojan determines that you've gone there, it starts taking keystroke logs and snaps shots of machines and sends it back to hackers.

The Pentagon has admitted it suffered a major cyber attack in which thousands of files were taken by foreign hackers.

Using domains that had been abandoned by the hackers, the researchers recovered data stolen from 44 computers in nine countries.

If you follow these tips, you're more likely to be free of interference from hackers, viruses, and spammers.

However, internet security experts urge web users to be wary as malicious hackers could use cards to spread viruses and spyware.

Using source code alone to determine problems is extremely difficult and may be possible only for expert kernel hackers.

But smart systems might be vulnerable to malfunctioning or attacks by hackers.

The Defense Department wants hackers to help them strengthen their systems against attack.

Intrusion detection system (IDS) is an active security technology which can prevent the network resources from being attacked by hackers.

If hackers gain access to the server, they cannot gain access to any internal servers.

A group of bandit hackers, known as Anonymous, declared "war" on Green Dam and threatened to attack it tomorrow.

W: what's more, it's not always so safe for us to pay online as hackers might steal the user name and password.

With their advanced computer knowledge, the Internet policemen will be able to easily handle attacks launched by hackers, and viruses.

In 2010, more hackers will be attacking the Internet because more critical infrastructure like the electric grid will be online.

Hackers who break into an email account can then intercept those emails and take control of each account registered using that address.

While the hackers will spot it, some of the advanced users may at least give you a hint.

Among hackers , "Good question! " is a strong and sincere compliment.

But bear in mind that it comes with a healthy fan base of hackers all trying on a daily basis to show they are smarter than Microsoft.

The lesson we life hackers must learn from this is that recklessness has no place in life.

Some veteran hackers are now designing, tweaking and selling Trojans since it is the only thing they know, says Mr Wan.

And last May, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California, was invaded by hackers yet to be identified.

Security: In this age of hackers, security has added significance.

To most hackers, getting investors seems like a terrifying and mysterious process. Actually it's merely tedious.

For now, that appears to have worked, but investigators and Times executives say they anticipate more efforts by hackers.

Yet some of the best hackers I know are night-owls. They hack away their code and leave the rest to management.

After downloading all of his emails, the hackers sent Mr. Hijazi a message demanding he share sensitive security information with them.

Most hackers are good enough to cover their backs, and their trails, and their phone calls.

A second part of the virus installs a program that allows hackers to gain remote control of infected computers.

For really creative malicious hackers, the sky is the limit if the user trusts them.

A: Linus Torvalds and a loosely knit team of volunteer hackers from acrossthe Internet wrote (and still are writing) Linux from scratch.

Over the years, dissatisfied hackers have created alternate ways to bridge this gap between Web servers and application code.

Hackers can now access the many sites on which we used the same password as LinkedIn.

With birthdates, email addresses and home addresses, hackers can launch spear "phishing" attacks that are targeted at those individuals.

Hackers look for computers with security vulnerabilities and infect them in advance of an attack.

This was not the work of hackers, he quickly concluded.

The Guardian yesterday reported that parliament and the foreign office had been attacked by hackers.

The network security, this paper dielectric from the firewall, attack and emergency response, intrusion detection, several simple hackers.

NEXON Europe is going to take remedial actions against hack sites and hackers.

This also seems like a function that hackers are likely to target, a further reason for caution.

[Chinese hackers] haven't even moved on to targeting online banking on a major scale, let alone the international market.

Some of those online lists have been recovered by hackers and re-posted.

Prosecutors believe that the program is likely compiled by the North Korean military hackers.

With the popularization of the network and the increasing attack from hackers, network security problem is becoming more serious.

The number of companies that have been attacked by hackers has grown dramatically the past few years.

Robber changed their modus operandi, from the blatant looting their way into the network using hackers to steal passwords to obtain money.

Hackers view this "feature" as a free ride on the XMLmobile, waving at the firewall sentries as they happily pass by.

Another security area is network protection. This concerns operating systems, configuration and monitoring to thwart hackers.

In fact, unless you're hoping to be an easy target for hackers, it's the worst password you can possibly choose.

Hackers are computer hobbyists for whom unauthorized access is an intellectual diversion.

One in four computer hackers is secretly working for the FBI and US secret service to inform on their peers, it has been claimed.

For hackers, the difficulty facing the difficulties encountered are not necessarily the best solution.

Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain.

Hackers are computer users who try to gain unauthorized and illegal access to your computers.

If a laptop or computer were stolen, the long-entrusted encryption may not protect important data against hackers.

They break into computers and break the phone system. Real hackers call these people crackers and want nothing to do with them.

It's something relative hackers. I often hear people talking about them, but I don't know much about them.

States like China and Russia now encourage groups of freelance hackers to do their dirty work, allowing plausible deniability.

In Brand's report, planners stood for bureaucrats everywhere, and hackers became not mere technicians, but cultural revolutionaries.

Two other, unnamed computer hackers who were said to be living "in or near Russia" were also charged.

So hackers get off with a little jail time, and a little probation.

But when the techniques and patterns of the hackers are similar, it is a sign that the hackers are the same or affiliated.

The most frequent attack path hackers use to get into systems is to use stack overflows, buffer overflows, and memory overflows.

Expert computer hackers, called crackers, might break into or overload military computers and networks, or spread computer viruses.

It helps to ensure that all information entered into the PC terminals during web access will not fall into the hands of hackers.

Other hackers are launching what many reckon are government-backed intrusions over the internet.

Yesterday Yang Jiechi, China's foreign minister, denied his government supported computer hackers targeting UK companies.

The ministry also estimates that eight out of 10 internet-connected computers are controlled by hackers, it added.

This results in a broken default website that 80% of hackers will blindly attack, instead of your real website.

Computer hackers exploited on internet security vulnerability to destroy some companies' databases.

They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside. They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults.

Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience.

Paranoid about "hackers" spying on him , my boss insists on sending all correspondence via snail mail.

Software that looks complex is much more impressive to other hackers, venture capitalists, and non-hacker friends and family.

Since economics, like nature, abhors a vacuum, a small industry of "security companies" has emerged to exploit the hackers' dilemma.

Hackers and ID thieves actually send these emails that look genuine and request that you provide them with sensitive information.

Alas, SecureWorks' Jackson says a group of Russian-speaking hackers has designed a virus that installs instant messaging code on computers.

There are concerns that the hackers may have gained advance knowledge of the federal budget, to be released next month.

At least its Web site is. . . from hackers.

In essence the criminal hackers are looking to break the application quickly by testing a lot of known vulnerabilities.

Partly, it could be that in the endless cat-and-mouse game between hackers and security teams, the hackers have jumped ahead.

The campaign attempts to trick China specialists into opening attachments that would provide hackers access to their computers.

Imagine the debate that might ensue if you stated that hackers do public service by finding and publicizing computer security weaknesses.

The tenor of the company's response enraged many netizens in China, and hackers blackened the home page of the company's Web site.

But things have finally changed, thanks to two Perl hackers and a lot of volunteer help and contributions!

But one was still out there and later, DigiNotar said several dozen certificates had been issued by hackers.

The spyware used in this attack allows hackers to control computers remotely, said Amit Yoran, chief executive of NetWitness.

At the MIT lab, he and other hackers were allowed to modify code on printers so that they sent convenient alert messages.

A collection of hackers programming information, hackers various programming skills.

Once hackers and cyber criminals had gained access to this data, they could sell the information on to a third party.

Extortion is a common motivation, with hackers demanding money to end or agree not to carry out an attack.

hackers will also target people using instant messaging services or making telephone calls over the internet in 2008, trend micro said.

Left undetected, their do-it-yourself efforts could cause sensitive corporate data to leak and open digital doors to hackers.

The hackers copied and removed mainly intellectual property, including hardware designs and software code.

Some hackers will send a mail bomb , and others will try to get into your system 's hard drive and erase all your data!

The smart grid would also provide hackers with a potential source of private information to steal.

But typically, hackers sell batches of credit-card data online and receive payment through third-party online payment services.

Python hackers are doing some nice work around twisted framework with WSRF that integrates well with Globus-complaint services.

The hackers stole some Google source code and also gained access to the private Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights advocates.

Ecological hackers We are happy to count the money from the hackers after being hacked, are we?

Hackers have turned up embarrassing holes in devices, and financial institutions copped to weaknesses in banking apps.

Into this stepped a group of networking protocol and hardware hackers intent on updating their latest offering, the X Window System.

Hackers are persistent, and are willing to devote hours, days and years to pursuing their individual passions.

Hackers who infect computers with viruses are now preparing sophisticated mass attacks using mobile phones.

A: ? Bots (millions of PCs hijacked by hackers to spread spam, malware and other bad things) are the engines that drive everything.

Hence the hacking of Epsilon, which at a single stroke may have given hackers access to millions of email addresses.

Whoever deserves the credit, the relationship between Microsoft and the Kinect hackers has blossomed into an unlikely love affair.

You don't have to memorize hundreds of passwords to ensure hackers won't compromise your online identity.

Other hackers have built apps that automatically call expensive, premium-rate phone numbers, racking up big bills for users.

While experts ferret out software flaws to fix them and protect users, hackers use the same information to devise pranks or commit crimes.

With sensitive data sometimes stored on devices and the servers that they use, the protection of users from black-hat hackers is critical.

In this fascinating adventure game, with Langeweiqi mafia hackers and resistance, and to save the collapse of the empire.

he sells his skills as a hacker to a company that repairs flaws in systems to prevent break-ins by hackers of all kinds.

While hackers with motives make headlines, they represent less than 20% of all network security breaches.

This helps prevent spammers and hackers from using programs to automatically perform these operations.

That means the hackers, or whoever they might sell the information to, would have trouble making direct charges.

Could terrorists or hackers cause financial chaos by tampering with Wall Street's computerised trading systems?

eg. Ethical hackers are becoming a mainstay of the effort to make corporate networks more secure.

Learn about the security issues and challenges facing businesses today, including solutions that hackers wish you never knew about.

This aptly named tool is essentially a patch to the kernel code that lets hackers access kernel memory and data structures.

Users are discovering that Web caches can solve both problems and provide an additional layer of defense against hackers.

The remarks come in the wake of accusations last week that Chinese hackers penetrated Google's computer networks.

The new frontier for hackers is systems built on Web services and XML, seen as inviting due to their popularity and immaturity.

Hackers were visionaries who could see new ways to use computers, creating programs that no one else could conceive.

A firewall helps keep hackers from using your computer to send out your personal information without your permission.

For hackers are concerned, various security hidden danger become a flashpoint goal.

As connected systems became ubiquitous, so novel groups of hackers emerged, keen to demonstrate their skills.

I'm sure this sense of belonging prompts many hackers.

Because of the prevalence of fast computers and speedy networks, hackers can fire off thousands of password guesses per minute.

So far, US hackers have retaliated with more than 300 attacks on Chinese Web sites.

So far, 150 New Yorkers have volunteered, and 25 hackers have planned trips to the city since Monday's launch.

Yet as governments and defence groups focus more on cyber arms, a market has developed for the talents of hackers.

The great experiment proved that some of us are wonderful and interesting but that a lot of us are hackers and pranksters and hucksters.

But even factoring in their annoying eccentricities, the disobedient attitude of hackers is a net win.

He could use his computer skills in a good way by stopping other hackers.

"It's an ambassador program for hackers who want to come to New York, but are intimidated by the city, " Wegener says.

These vulnerabilities allow hackers to remotely access all data on a personal computer.

Abominable viruses, blamed hackers , why not apply your gift in a proper way, I condemn.

This paper planing out hackers common attack means, detailed analysis of DDoS attack the principle and process.

The particularly craven hackers, phishing fraudsters and malware writers ply the trade for cash, not kicks.

Update: It's possible that the hackers actually thought they were taking down CNN's sports site, based on early Twitter messages about it.

Q: According to US media reports, Chinese hackers attacked some American oil companies to obtain project information.

Hackers also use software to test potential passwords until they hit upon the right one.

Fortunately, social pressure is changing the impressions people have of hackers and virus writers.

He reads hackermagazines, swaps information with a small circle of hackers and writesmalicious code.

This raised the states because hackers can still eliminate their numbers with pin code electronically.