Both of the hacker attacks were made possible because of bugs in Microsoft's Explorer software.
According to one recent report from Verizon, hacker attacks against U.S. businesses are on the upswing.
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Technical glitches, hacker attacks, speculation and fraud have caused wild swings in the dollar price of Bitcoins.
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Perhaps, there could have been ways in which users could have prevented such hacker attacks, Miller added.
This could be used to make supercomputers more stable and reliable, and make servers less vulnerable to hacker attacks.
For Apple, the attack represents not just a corporate security issue but a rare confirmation that its consumer products are vulnerable to hacker attacks.
Security experts also warn that a growing volume of sophisticated hacker attacks take information gleaned from social-networking profiles to trick people with convincing targeted messages.
This means they are just as susceptible to malware and hacker attacks as PCs -but for a variety of reasons they are often overlooked by IT professionals and used without proper safeguards by employees.
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Hacker attacks on Sony, PBS.org, and Honda Canada, fill the news while what is evidently a well planned and executed attack on the Defense Industrial Base using previously acquired RSA SecureID seeds is underway.
In other international news, Xinhua and China Daily highlight calls by Chinese and US officials and experts for more cyber-security co-operation and less "blame or accusations without evidence" of state-sponsored hacker attacks, during the US-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing.
Lloyd says he has already heard anecdotes about police in the US searching for the masks in people's houses to be used as evidence of involvement with Anonymous hacker attacks, "which is scary but also ridiculous - you wouldn't prosecute someone for having a t-shirt with Che or CND on it".
All three have fallen victim to anonymous attacks from hacker group Operation:Payback in massive DDoS attacks.
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Those browsers could cover a hacker's tracks to illegal sites or hide a hacker's anonymous attacks through the Web.
The hacker also played down suggestions that the attacks were the work of Iranian authorities.
The hacktivist attacks were spearheaded by the Anonymous hacker group and its tech-savvy offshoots Antisec and Lulzsec.
Separately, four other men involved with Anonymous attacks and accused of founding the LulzSec hacker group will go on trial this April in London.
It is understood to be a separate organisation from Anonymous, the "hacker collective" which has been linked to a number of high profile web attacks including several on Sony sites.
The hacker group Anonymous and its offshoot Lulz Security have been linked to a number of high profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants.
However, the hacker had put in the wrong web address, and Microsoft disabled an automatic redirect to the correct website before the attacks could kick in.
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