hacker
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Our water system’s decentralized, fragmented nature, perhaps a bit like our electoral system, is a double-edged sword, inasmuch as its vulnerabilities are atomized—at least a single hacker can’t contaminate all the water in the country.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
An employee at defense contractor IEH Corp. was taken in by a hacker posing as a business prospect, the company said Thursday in a filing with the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Both OpenAI, the hacker, and the victim, Hugging Face, have portrayed the response to this incident as a collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Commentators and analysts took to their podcasts and social media accounts to guess which cyber crime group or nation state hacker might be behind it.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Halliday was alluding to a famous ’70s hacker named John Draper, better known by the alias Captain Crunch.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
DEF CON Franklin matched volunteer white-hat hackers with small water utilities across the country, helping them patch holes and advising them on basic security hygiene.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Department of Justice said the hackers were part of an alleged "sweeping, state-sponsored" effort to steal data.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Taiwan has previously blamed Chinese hackers for carrying out most of the millions of cyberattacks affecting the island democracy on a daily basis, but did not identify a particular country in this latest incident.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The agencies warned that Iran-affiliated hackers were targeting internet-connected industrial controllers “to cause disruptive effects within the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
It must belong to one of the hackers.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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