1.   As anonymous assaults on major Web sites continued Wednesday, computer vandals crippled a large online brokerage operation and a media site.

2.   Computer vandals would study it to find its security weaknesses, but so would hobbyists and security experts worldwide.

3.   Freely distributing Satan, they contend, is like handing a loaded gun to every punk computer vandal in the world.

4.   Johansson decided not to publicize the problem immediately because doing so would have made it easy for computer vandals to launch attacks against Microsoft-based computers.

5.   Last week saw announcements of newly discovered security flaws in Unix and Linux that could serve as catnip to ambitious computer vandals.

6.   The system used by SANS to distribute e-mail to members and journalists had been cracked by computer vandals with a taste for naughty photos.