The internal problems of the Congress have also made it vulnerable to attacks from rival parties.
Anything short of that leaves the world and innocent citizens vulnerable to attacks of all kinds.
Microsoft has been criticised for flaws in previous systems that left users vulnerable to attacks by hackers.
E-mail services, ISPs, registrars, search engines and software makers are also vulnerable to attacks and sometimes reluctant to cooperate in the fight against cybercrime.
However, Microsoft's browser is so vulnerable to attacks by online crooks and various troublemakers that the American and German governments have recommended that users consider alternatives.
Abizaid, that U.S. troops were an "antibody" to Iraqi culture, the Americans consolidated their forces on large "forward operating bases, " maintaining a presence only by means of motorized patrols that were particularly vulnerable to attacks by improvised explosive devices.
He also said removing Saddam from power would make other nations less vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
However, when our infrastructure is online, it is also vulnerable to cyber attacks that could cripple essential services.
This could be used to make supercomputers more stable and reliable, and make servers less vulnerable to hacker attacks.
For Apple, the attack represents not just a corporate security issue but a rare confirmation that its consumer products are vulnerable to hacker attacks.
The conventional wisdom was that Obama, as the newest of the candidates, had an image that was malleable and thus highly vulnerable to negative attacks.
"It should be noted though that this disruption, if successful, would be localised to segments of the internet vulnerable to these attacks, " he told me.
At an intelligence briefing last month, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair warned Congress that the nation's computer networks were particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Lacking a real lobby, the press is vulnerable to legal attacks.
But working so closely with the Afghan army can sometimes leave British troops more vulnerable to insider attacks, which have increased in number over the past years.
WPA-PSK, NT and NTLM passwords have all long been known to be vulnerable to dictionary attacks that try every possible set of words that compose a password.
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On top of this, the fact that a relatively small group of people are actually sharing files makes Gnutella and similar systems more vulnerable to legal attacks than is generally assumed.
That kind of heads-up could be a cheap and effective way to create accountability among the thousands of site owners who leave their pages vulnerable to malware attacks, says Paul Stevens, policy director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
And I think part of this is that, of course, you don't want to be accused if you're one of her fellow Democrats of setting her up for defeat, sort of right, you know, weakening her so that she's more vulnerable to coming attacks from Republicans.
Such double acts may find themselves less vulnerable to the reputational attacks that hedge funds often endured before the financial crisis.
Even if the government meets targets to expand storage capacity by June, that would still leave around 8 million tons of grains out in the open -- vulnerable to weather and attacks by rodents.
Additionally, jailbreaking can leave your phone vulnerable to hacking and malicious attacks, including an iPhone worm that specifically targets jailbroken phones.
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But correspondents say that the rebels seldom used the route because they knew it would make their forces vulnerable to land and air attacks by the army.
But once all NATO combat troops have left Afghanistan at the end of 2014 any advisors who will remain will rely entirely on Afghan forces for their security, leaving them acutely vulnerable to green-on-blue attacks.
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For now, passive self-defence is recommended: barbed wire to protect vulnerable parts of ships, fire hoses to push pirates away and an alert crew to spot attacks early to allow the ship to take evasive action.
This acid attacks the enamel on the teeth and leaves them vulnerable to decay.
If the wedge breakout holds and the market attacks the early January low, gold will be vulnerable to more substantial losses in the days ahead.
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But apps written to the protocol can be vulnerable to denial-of-service, session hijacking, and man-in-the middle attacks over the Internet, as well as an attacker actually able to "watch" the transactions, says David Goldsmith, CEO of Matasano Security, who will present the firm's new research on FIX at the upcoming Black Hat USA briefings later this month.
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