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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack, " the California-based company said.
The funeral was targeted in a drone attack but the Pakistani Taliban leader is reported to have missed being killed by a few hours.
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Three days after the court had ordered Mr Carroll to live with his captain, his car was targeted in an arson attack outside Mr Nolan's Northumberland home.
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Aside from the denial of service attack that targeted the site earlier this month, it has also been the subject of a complaint by a group of Bulgarian banks filed against the site with Bulgarian regulators in October of last year, claiming that it had sought to undermine their reputation by publishing a U.S. State Department cable about alleged banking corruption.
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The man whose home was targeted in a pipe bomb attack in Derry has spoken of his shock.
Over the weekend, Toronto police chief Bill Blair described the attack as a targeted shooting in which bystanders were also hit.
He told BBC Look North, buzzards were often targeted because of concerns they could attack pheasants.
Mohammad Aslam Khan, head of Karachi counter-terrorism cell, told the BBC that the attack was "clearly targeted" at the Bohra Ismaili Shia community, from which most of the dead and injured came.
Bhutto was targeted in an Oct. 18 suicide attack during her homecoming from exile.
Bhutto was targeted by an Oct. 18 suicide attack on a homecoming procession in the southern city of Karachi as she returned from years in exile.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, activities perceived to be contrary to the moral code of Islam have come under repeated attack, with alcohol shops targeted in Baghdad and other cities.
What it means for you: Even if your company seems to be too small to be targeted by a state-sponsored hacker attack, now is a good time to beef up your digital security, in case the situation gets worse.
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This is a much nicer headline for the social media company than the ones popping up a few days ago ( including mine), when Cisco security reported on the largest spam-based malware attack to date, which targeted LinkedIn users with duplicitous links embedded in contact requests.
Police believe Mr Harkins was targeted and his murder was not a random attack.
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