"After the attack, I set up a Facebook page asking for witnesses to get in touch, " Ms Becarra said.

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Shortly before the acid attack, somebody attempted to hack his Facebook page, it said.

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The company took its website offline after the attack and now carries a message on its front page apologising for any inconvenience.

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The Irish took a page out of the underdog's playbook: When you are overmatched, attack.

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"The evidence does not support the magistrate's gratuitous attack on Pribe's veracity, " read a 38-page brief that Pribe himself signed.

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Thus, even a low and slow attack that intends to exhaust system resources by continuously loading a data intensive web page can be countered automatically.

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Even the Conservative former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine was forced to deny his 228-page report No Stone Unturned, unveiled in Birmingham six weeks ago, amounted to an attack on Mr Osborne.

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In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker would have to host a website that contains a specially crafted web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability.

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On his personal home page he posts the exact coordinates of his home, his birthdate and parents, medical problems (heart attack, carcinoma, narcolepsy, dyslexia, pneumonia, motion sickness) and even a copy of the 1976 letter booting him out of Duke University for getting an F in his graduate major subject.

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