PageOnce, available to US residents, remains the safest online service for bill-paying and managing personal accounts, partly because it does not store your checking account details, so no hacker can potentially come in and steal the information to drain your savings.

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No sooner had the hacker war begun than one Anon declared a splinter faction, SonyRecon, calling for personal hacks against Sony employees and the judge in the geohot case.

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But contrary to a report in Monday's USA Today, a spokesman said that none of the department's systems have been shut down and there is no evidence that a hacker has breached the system's security.

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But Foley said Monday that the department has "no information that there actually was a hacker" who gained access to the two computers.

CNN: State Department admits to flaws in computer system

No security code will ever foil a determined hacker with a supercomputer and a lot of time on his hands, but soon encryption should be adequate to placate most people.

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As Douglas Rushkoff writes in his brilliant manifesto, Program or Be Programmed, the hacker ethos that led to all of this digital technology is no longer present for most users.

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But some security researchers imagine a less sensational, if equally troubling possibility: Hundreds or thousands of aircraft radioing their approach to an air traffic control tower, and no way to sort through which are real and which are ghost plane signals crafted by a malicious hacker.

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That means a hacker with enough time, resources and skill can break or break into any network--no matter how seemingly well-protected.

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LulzSec is one of several shadowy hacker groups that have sprung to global prominence over the past year and are loosely organized, often with no central leadership.

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