Interesting you mention this. There is a company and it's a retailer that I tried to apply for and every few weeks my password gets lost and when I go to reset it it takes forever for to get there. I wonder if that pages getting hacked? They have said that they're just simply backed up with all of their business being around the holidays.

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On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Colin Howard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> BBC Radio 4 2012 11 27 at 20:00 repeated BBC Radio 4 2012 12 02 17:00.
> 
> Radio 4 website for 2012 11 27 shows:
> The Hackers 
> Simon Cox delves into the sometimes strange world of the hacker activist, or
> 'hacktivist'. 
> 
> Program page shows:
> 
> Governments do it, companies do it, criminals do it. But in recent years
> some of the highest profile computer hacks have come from so-called
> hacktivist groups. Each week hackers target a new organisation or government
> website. Many of these hacker activists claim to belong to the amorphous
> group known as Anonymous or an off-shoot of it. Their aim? To wrest control
> of the internet from states and big corporations and give it back to the
> people. Or simply to have fun.
> The FBI, the Metropolitan police, the US Senate, Sony, PayPal and Visa have
> been some of the highest profile victims of the hackers. More often than not
> the attacks come in the form of DOS, or denial of service, attacks -
> effectively flooding websites with requests so that they crash. In some
> cases the hackers have managed to steal personal and financial records from
> the organisations and then post them online. Sometimes the reason given by
> the hackers for these attacks is as a response to official actions taken
> against Wikileaks or attempts by the authorities to close down certain
> websites, such as free music download sites. 
> The FBI and police have had some success in tracking down some of the
> hackers - many of them just teenagers.
> In "The Hackers" Simon Cox delves into the strange world of hacktivism, as
> he tracks down some of these hackers and speaks to those trying to catch
> them. 
> 
> Security agencies are turning to hacking to gather intelligence -but is it
> legal?
> . Computer Hacking
> Tom Watson MP tells The Report that computer hacking could dwarf the phone
> hacking scandal
> 
> Access link:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p0h5v
> 
> 
> Colin Howard, living near Southampton in Southern 
> England.
> 
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