Officers described it as a "targeted attack" in a "low crime, suburban area of Liverpool".
All of those pieces point to a complex, multistep targeted attack from a high-resource organization.
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Merseyside Police believe the shooting happened on Utting Avenue and was a targeted attack.
Det Insp Graham Atherton said the incident was not a targeted attack.
"This particular case, it does have some of the earmarks of a targeted attack, " Chief Randy Wright of Portland told local station KZTV.
Police investigating a suspected targeted attack in Liverpool where a man was shot in the head and chest have released CCTV footage of the scene.
Ferguson says it doesn't take a Project Grey Goose to figure out that the proliferation of autorun viruses probably wasn't the result of a targeted attack.
But patching the vulnerabilities used for mass infections of sites, which often use automated tools to spread malware among thousands of targets, is very different from patching every vulnerability a hacker could possibly use for a targeted attack on a single victim site.
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Other recent reports relayed French concern that their embassy in Beirut is being targeted for attack by Hizbullah.
Does this targeted tax attack infringe on the constitutional rights of upper-income taxpayers?
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Mr. Kadyrov was killed by a targeted bomb attack in May 2004.
Instead of being a targeted cyberwarfare attack, this malware is simply a run-of-the-mill trojan virus that travels by "sneakernet, " the tongue-in-cheek name for the transmission of viruses across unconnected computers by hand (or foot) in the days before widespread Internet connectivity.
The president also will make the case that his proposed Department of Homeland Security is critical to improving intelligence analysis and coordination between the federal government and state and local officials who oversee the infrastructure that may be targeted for attack.
For one thing, those who have done so from police trainees to CPA local hires to the president of the Iraqi Governing Council have been systematically, and all-too-often successfully, targeted for attack, simply for being associated with the United States.
Outside of the Middle East, the concern about Sarin gas (or VX gas, which stays in the environment longer) is more about a targeted terrorist attack, such as the one that occurred in the Tokyo subway in 1995, where 12 people were killed and thousands were injured.
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No culprit has been pinpointed yet, but a link to the same printer spool vulnerability used by Stuxnet has led researchers to suspect that it may be another instance of a targeted cyberwar attack given that Iran, Syria and a handful of other countries in the region are almost exclusively marked as targets.
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But that means the problem is even harder to solve: Most of the hundreds of thousands of sites targeted in the attack still remain vulnerable and will likely be targeted again.
The second drone attack targeted the funeral prayer in Makeen for the people killed in the first attack.
And, as with the international humanitarian agencies and newly empowered Iraqi police, these civilians have been targeted for murderous attack.
Bhutto died after gunfire and a suicide bomb attack targeted her at a campaign rally outside the Pakistani capital on Thursday.
If your cancer is HER2 positive, you may also be given a targeted therapy to attack the protein that's overproduced in these cancers.
Peshawar is the capital of North West Frontier Province, where a coordinated suicide attack targeted an upscale hotel earlier this week, killing nine people.
Sixty four officers have been forced to leave their homes during the past five years because of intelligence that they were being targeted for potential attack.
The Taliban said that the attack targeted "foreigners and Israeli teachers" training Afghan police at the base in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, according to the AFP news agency.
An emerging area of inquiry in security research is the blurring boundaries between cybercrime and other, more targeted forms of attack, and more specifically attacks that appear to be politically motivated.
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Muhammad Iftikhar, deputy superintendent of Peshawar police, told CNN that Monday's attack targeted a truck terminal on the same road where militants destroyed scores of containers, trailers and vehicles on Sunday.
Police said they believe suspect Jared Lee Loughner, 22, targeted Giffords in the attack.
He blamed a "terrorist attack that targeted students on their first day of exams".
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"Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack, " the California-based company said.
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