Since at least 2008, Anonymous has been a loose confederation of computer hackers and others.
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Or that the suit was based on a federal law aimed at computer hackers, not manufacturers of defective products.
And it is no secret that most computer hackers are better at so-called "social engineering" than breaking through corporate firewalls.
The price dropped on Thursday, though, after being targeted by computer hackers.
Five computer hackers in the United States and abroad were charged today, and a sixth pled guilty, for computer hacking and other crimes.
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SourceXchange's mission is to help computer hackers who contribute to open-source software, such as the popular operating system Linux, to link up with computer companies.
While the business leaders seemed focused on computer hackers, Interpol's Kendall said there is a "real danger" of terrorists and hostile nations using computer networks to wage international warfare.
Nasdaq OMX reported a security breach that took place in October last year when computer hackers penetrated its systems and may have planted some malicious software to pilfer sensitive data.
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And his efforts to combat the invasion of these viruses, in order to protect its reputation, led Talpes to refocus his company, dubbed Bitdefender, on protecting enterprises from computer hackers in 1996.
Over recent years, computer hackers identifying themselves under the Anonymous umbrella have carried out a series of attacks on US government sites and linked organisations such as the US-based intelligence company Stratfor.
Housh is a close observer of Anonymous, the loosely-knit group of computer hackers who brought down the Web sites of MasterCard and Visa in retaliation for they way they have cut off funding services to WikiLeaks.
DeepNines is a tiny Dallas software maker that protects corporate computer networks from hackers and other threats.
Financially motivated attacks typically rely on computer code that hackers plant on victims' computers, often as attachments or links in emails sent to employees.
In July, General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, said during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, that the number of computer attacks from hackers, criminal gangs and foreign nations on American infrastructure had increased 17-fold from 2009 to 2011.
The CFAA and state computer crime laws initially were designed to restrict hackers from breaching computer security a sensible objective that, as I discuss below, should be preserved.
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U.S. assistant attorney Stephen Heymann built his career taking on hackers in computer crime cases.
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Hackers create computer viruses just to wreak havoc on unsuspecting people, and those same types of people can post stolen information anywhere.
Symantec's Hacker Protection utility, like Shields Up, scans your PC for open ports--electronic gateways into a computer--that hackers can exploit to access a system and files.
After months of investigation by the computer security firm Mandiant, experts are still unsure how the hackers initially infiltrated the Times's computer systems, the report said.
The increasing success of hackers means that computer and internet security is one of the few bits of the IT business showing healthy growth rates at the moment.
That makes it especially insidious, as users can infect their computer with software that gives hackers remote access to their desktops without downloading an e-mail attachment or running a program.
Others, especially those with graduate degrees, will go on to careers in law enforcement working for the National Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies in need of hackers with special computer skills, such as advanced programming and digital forensics.
But on Saturday, hackers broke into the computer system of the International Monetary Fund.
Web sites and computer networks have been targeted by hackers for decades, although large-scale, coordinated cyberattacks are still a relatively new phenomenon.
Provide advice to governments on how to protect their computer systems and track down and arrest hackers.
An IP address can be an important clue as to the location of an Internet-connected computer but can easily be manipulated by hackers operating anywhere in the world.
There were also reports of skulls popping up on some computer screens, which could indicate that hackers had installed malicious code in the networks, the Korean Internet Security Agency said.
Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
Earlier this year, the FBI used a computer eavesdropping technique to ensnare two alleged Russian hackers.
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