It is Monday morning and you begin your pre-work ritual by going to the World Wide Web and checking the morning electronic newspapers. In the past you might have read the paper edition of The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal; but with free news services and robust search features available on the Internet, you have decided to spare the expense and now the Internet is your primary news source. Your homepage automatically opens to the electronic edition of your favorite news site where you see the latest headline, "Electronic Terrorist Group Responsible for Hundreds of Fatalities." Now wishing that you had the paper edition, you wonder if this news story is real or simply a teenage hacker's prank. This would not be the first time that a major news service had its Web site hacked. You read further and the story unfolds.
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