Sentence examples for computer intruder from inspiring English sources

New accounts that were not created by the usual procedures raised a red flag: a computer intruder could be working his way into the software giant's network.

A computer intruder scooped 55,000 credit card numbers this week from Creditcards.com, a company that serves dozens of small and medium-sized merchants, and published the information on the Internet after unsuccessfully demanding payment to keep the data secret.

On the Web site SecurityFocus.com, a convicted computer intruder, Kevin Mitnick, echoed the law enforcement officials' words, warning that so much personal data drifts across the Net that "there's no doubt that the Internet makes it easier" to grab the kind of information that can be used to establish a new identity.

[B2.] Hacker Steals Credit Card Numbers A computer intruder copied 55,000 credit card numbers this week from Creditcards.com, a company that serves dozens of small and medium-size merchants, and published the information online after unsuccessfully demanding payment to keep the data secret.

"If the code is tamper-resistant to protect against a hostile computer intruder or virus, and detects a systemic anomaly, then an accidental launch is a real possibility," says Nolan, now a principal with the Phoenix Consulting Group of Huntsville, Ala., a corporate intelligence agency.

Computer intruders, on the other hand, tend to characterize themselves as explorers.

Symantec updates its antivirus software in the background almost every day in order to fight the latest computer intruders.

He said computer intruders may have rearranged the files on his client's hard drive without her knowledge.

Clean Slate is financing research to explore how to design computer systems that are less vulnerable to computer intruders and recover more readily once security is breached.

The program, which takes advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's operating system and server software, can also lay infected systems open to computer intruders.

Attorney General Janet Reno and the United States attorney, Guy A. Lewis, issued statements signaling a tougher stance toward young computer intruders whose deeds might once have been deemed pranks.