It's not easy to fight back: Often a bashing victim can't even figure out who his attacker is.

FORBES: Attack of the Blogs

Four years on, Mr Kent's attacker has remained out of jail.

BBC: A victim of crime

That's like requiring an attacker to assemble a note out of a magazine he's never read before, in the dark.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Police found out that the acid that the alleged attacker, 35-year-old Yuri Zarutsky, splashed on Filin's face was bought at an auto shop.

NPR: Dancer Admits Being Behind Bolshoi Chief Attack

Michelle Alvarez told the Houston Chronicle she saw the attacker running toward other students and tried to back out of the way.

NPR: Student Arrested In Texas College Stabbing Attack

He claims that the person who attacked the university student had already been thrown out of the bar and he has been mistakenly identified as the attacker.

BBC: Marlon King vows to overturn sex attack conviction

If smart meters are rolled out in large numbers this could mean problems as it would give any attacker a way to trick that smart grid into making some catastrophically bad decisions.

BBC: How to hack a nation's infrastructure

This enables the attacker to control the opponent or, failing that, to prevent the adversary from carrying out a decision.

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