He then used the scanning tool NMAP to dig up thousands of vulnerable machines visible on the Internet.

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Hungarian-born reelmaker Ted Juracsik made the first Tibor reel in 1995, staying true to the credo of tool-and-die masters: The most beautiful machines have the fewest moving parts.

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But then, in a Mitsubishi factory, he came across a British machine-tool salesman who told him that Japanese workers were getting three times as much out of their machines as their better paid British counterparts.

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Sobig likely arose from programmers in Russia who wanted to make a tool that would gather passwords and account numbers, while also letting spammers take control of other machines and use them to spew out millions of junk messages anonymously.

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Only six of the 109 U.S. machine tool companies surveyed devote 25 percent or more of their current production capacity to these high-end machines.

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Rouland points out that ISS Tuesday discovered a chat room called "IP Victims" on Yahoo that is being used for the exchange of IP addresses of machines compromised by the Trojan horse Back Orifice and an older distributed denial-of-service attack tool called Sub Seven.

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