Sentence examples for computer disruptions from inspiring English sources

The assessment said recent computer disruptions have included Web defacements, "denial of service" attacks that can disrupt or paralyze a network, and hacking "probes" and "scans" aimed at testing the vulnerability of a network.

Many customers bought more large computers like I.B.M.'s 390 series than they needed while modernizing their systems to avoid Year 2000 computer disruptions.

Throw in economic recovery in Asia and the absence of a substantial slowdown that many expected from Year 2000 computer disruptions and the end result was a shock to the electronics supply chain.

So great is the cost of computer disruptions to the economy that the sale of services or equipment to prevent such problems is starting to be seen as a can't-miss proposition for those with the right technology.

Power disturbances around the world cause more than 17,000 computer disruptions every second, from annoying frozen cursors to serious destruction of equipment, according to the latest calculations of American Power Conversion of West Kingston, R.I., which began building backup power systems for computer users in 1984.

A Romanian man was indicted in Los Angeles on charges of hacking into more than 150 government computers, causing disruptions that cost NASA, the Energy Department and the Navy nearly $1.5 million.

Others claimed that the Y2K bug would show the folly of computer dependence through disruptions in automated teller machines, power plants, elevators, airplanes and grocery line check-out stations.

As they have been doing ever since the rollover to 2000 occurred on Saturday with no major disruptions, computer experts and government officials repeated their convictions that testing in recent years had amply proved that the threat had been real.

It is widely used by researchers, practitioners and students to analyze the behavior of computer networks, since disruptions or service performance degradations are avoided.

Under the computer simulation, the disruption of the morphostat gradient in the stroma generated epithelial precursors of cancer without any mutation in the epithelium.

The Fed noted that the United States banking system and other parts of the economy weathered the Year 2000 computer changeover without major disruptions and it predicted few further problems.