A 12-year-old boy in Detroit was (1)_______of entering a company’s credit rating computer and (2)_____the numbers he found there. His mother told reporters that he spent up to 14 hours on his computer during the weekend.
Prevention is probably easier than detection, and many companies now spend lots of time and money (3)______programs using passwords and codes. Of course all this is no use (4)_____if computer users tell each other their password, stick it on their screen so they don’t (5)______it or use passwords like "password". It all happens. There are plenty of software companies which specialize in writing software that makes computers hacker-proof. One company in the States set (6)______to prove that its system can defeat hacker by asking over 2000 of them to try to hack it. The hackers were given 2 weeks to discover the secret message stored on 2 PCs in offices in New York and San Francisco. The message (7)______: "The persistent hunter who (8)____his prize (9)______becomes the hunted." You will be relieved – or perhaps disappointed – to learn that (10)______hacker managed it.