Sentence examples for disrupt computer from inspiring English sources

Sunbeam sold fewer Powermate generators, Coleman camp stoves and lanterns than it did in the quarter a year earlier, when some customers feared that the arrival of the Year 2000 might disrupt computer systems.

Iran reported a number of new cyberattacks on Tuesday, saying foreign enemy hackers tried in recent months to disrupt computer systems at a power plant and other industries in a strategically important southern coastal province as well as at a Culture Ministry information center.

In December 2005, a hacker calling himself "Fearwall" tried to sell on eBay a program to disrupt computers through Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet program.

IT WAS not the crippling cyber-terrorist attack that doomsayers have long predicted, but the "SQL Slammer" worm, a rogue program that rippled across the internet on January 25th, still managed to disrupt computers around the world.

So Apple's compact personal computer replaced IBM's ungainly behemoths thereby disrupting computer functionality through miniaturization, with many flow-on effects such as the disruptions to the music industry and the transport industry.

More than a dozen law enforcement agents raided a Manila apartment from which they said a malicious computer program was unleashed last week, disrupting computer systems around the world.

He was about be sentenced for a string of computer crimes, making him the latest hacktivist to be punished for disrupting computer systems.

C1 Variation of Malicious Program Antivirus software companies warned of a program circulating on the Net, similar to but more malicious than the one that disrupted computer systems this month.

Under Federal law, purposely disrupting computer networks is a felony punishable on the first offense by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Cloud disrupts computer servers and data storage, billions of dollars more. Social may be one of those rare things that is totally new".

A bank employee was released today for lack of evidence after being held overnight as a suspect in the creation of a computer program that has disrupted computer traffic around the world.