Last year, a water plant in Texas disconnected its control system from the Internet after a hacker posted pictures of the facility's internal controls.
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.
And since computers connected to the Internet via broadband connections are a tempting target for the occasional troublemaking hacker, the router comes with a built-in firewall to help keep them out.
The charging documents say a hacker identified as "Sharpie" used information Keys supplied in an Internet chat room to access the Times' computer system.
However, many of the tools available on the Internet are so easy to use that any computer novice can become a dangerous hacker, he said.
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The charging documents say a hacker identified as "Sharpie" used information Keys supplied in an Internet chat room to access the Times' web system and alter a headline on a December 2010 story.
As difficult as this is for companies like Skype and Microsoft to deal with, the hacker layer is an important part of the immune system of the open internet.
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According to a federal indictment handed down last month, a hacker identified only as "Sharpie" used information Keys supplied in an Internet chat room to alter a headline on a December 2010 Times story to reference another hacking group.
According to a federal indictment handed down last month, a hacker identified only as "Sharpie" used information Keys supplied in an Internet chat room and altered a headline on a December 2010 Times story to reference another hacking group.
Sunday at the Defcon hacker conference, Kapela and Pilosov are presenting a new technique that allows hackers to remotely reroute Internet traffic without the target's knowledge.
Almost since the satellite service was launched in 1994, a shadowy hacker underground has grown alongside it, which sells black boxes and doctored smart cards over the Internet to folks who don't want to pay monthly fees.
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