Thelma, via email A In most cases, hackers will be after your username and password.
Yet a leading internet security researcher has warned that the smart cities of the future could be more vulnerable to hackers than the computers and smartphones of today.
Once the hackers are inside, in most cases they'll benefit from a lack of a quality "insider threat" programme, Penrose noted.
Firstly Sandra Bullock explained to your mum how the world wide web worked in hit thriller The Net, and then Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie hoped to appeal to the yoof crowd with the aggressively over-styled Hackers.
Apple security director Augustin Farrugia told the court that the music was deleted for security reasons and that hackers including Jon Lech Johansen also known as "DVD Jon" and software such as the digital rights management removal tool Requiem had made Apple "very paranoid".
So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to "dump" material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
He told the court that the NoW's managing editor, Stuart Kuttner, approved the payments and that news desk executives Ian Edmondson and James Weatherup - both convicted phone hackers - knew of his source.
On Thursday a report by the US Senate armed services committee found that hackers associated with the Chinese government had repeatedly infiltrated the computer systems of US airlines, technology companies and other contractors involved in the movement of US troops and military equipment.
Security researchers have warned that hackers could be preparing attacks on other major film studios in the wake of the Sony Pictures cyber-attack that paralysed the company's computer systems and resulted in the leak of several unreleased films.
The US government says hackers based in Russia and China have engaged in widespread pillaging of corporate trade secrets, some of it state-sponsored.
President Obama on Wednesday created the first-ever sanctions program to penalize overseas hackers who engage in cyber-spying and companies that knowingly benefit from the fruits of that espionage, potentially including state-owned corporations in Russia and China.
