Geeks get their hack together
The recent much-hyped online skirmishes triggered by the China--U.S. spy plane controversy are just the latest example of what computer-security experts fear is an increasingly alarming trend in organized hack attacks.
Vietnam's state-owned Internet service provider (ISP), which handles 30% of the country's traffic, recently received a letter from "the Vietnam Hacker Association" threatening to launch crippling assaults if the ISP reveals hackers' identities to the police. University students have apparently been stealing -- and selling -- passwords that let them surf the Net on other people's tabs, running up thousands of dollars in bills.
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