Soon, the term hacker had a new meaning — a person using computers to explore a network to which he or she didn't belong.

不久，黑客被赋予了新的含义，即黑客是使用计算机探索其不在的网络。

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Instead of trying to penetrate a network and find a domain or network they're completely unaware of, the hacker only has to infiltrate a portion of a network that they do know about.

他们不必再去尝试潜入网络并找到毫不了解的域或网络，只需进入自己了解的某个网络的一部分即可。

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In fact, he notes that within the hacker community, DDoS and similar attacks don't even qualify as true hacking, which involves actually compromising a network, not taking down a site.

他注意到，在黑客界内部，阻断服务攻击以及类似的攻击方式只能算是雕虫小技，甚至还不够格被称作真正的“黑”。真正的“黑”是要对一个网络造成真正的危害，而不是暂时关掉一个网站。

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In January last year, a hacker network that claimed to be based in Saudi Arabia paralyzed the websites of Israel's stock exchange and national airline and claimed to have published details of thousands of Israeli credit cards.

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Only, the wireless network you signed into was not only unsecure, it was a decoy network setup by a malicious hacker targeting people casually checking email, like you.

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In a talk at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona Thursday, Greek researcher Thanassis Giannetsos plans to present a new software tool that he and two colleagues have written that they say would allow a malicious hacker to penetrate a sensor network and change or delete data at will.

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