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Hacking

Hacking

Over the past 20 years a new breed of people has been evolving. They have their own culture, their own technology and their own languages. Among them are pirates and thieves, celebrities and philosophers, lawbreakers and police, heroes and villains. They operate all over the world but their real home is cyberspace. And now there's a conflict in cyberspace between its outlaws and its angels. This is the inside story of the very different missions which now drive the diverse breed of people known to the world as hackers. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a war is being fought on the web. Dennis Treece leads one of the teams of front line defenders positioned around the globe, ready to spot and neutralize the latest attack. This is the Global Threat Operations Center. This is where we monitor the hacker threat 24 hours a day on four continents. It's like the bridge of the star ship Enterprise. Minute by minute, hour by hour every attack is analyzed. Any one of them could be the precursor to a bigger onslaught fired by a hacker anywhere in the world.

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