hacker
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The wealthy but suddenly unmoored LIV golfers have been left to scramble like a weekend hacker trying to salvage a bogey after chipping into a sand trap.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
With a password in hand, a hacker wouldn’t be able to get in without this second code required for access.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
“Whether or not Mythos is a hacker superweapon really is immaterial to the conversation,” says Dave Lewis, global advisory chief information-security officer at the password-manager developer 1Password.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
"The second thing is that even with existing weaknesses that we know about, but organisations might not have patched against, might not be well defended against, it's just a really good hacker," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Nobody suspects you for a hacker when you can’t figure out how to send a text from your eight-year-old Nokia.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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