...But officials said they patched the security hole a week ago, after Hennessy exposed the problem on an influential online security Web site known in the trade as BugTrack (www.securityfocus.com). The incident underscores the heightened sensitivity...

...days it's pretty much point-and-click hacking,'' said William Knowles, a former hacker who now works as an online-security consultant. Dial-up modem users, on the other hand, are moving targets that are harder to hit because Internet...

...information and use it for their own fraudulent purposes. Todd Waskelis, director of commercial services for the online security firm NETSEC in Herndon, Va., says "It is not a vast badlands out there, but consumers should take all the precautions...