Hackers in the News HACKERS IN THE NEWS ORLANDO SENTINEL- ORIGINATED FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HACKERS USED WEAPONS LAB COMPUTER TO DISTRIBUTE PORN -TITLE "-A NEWSPAPER'S PROBE OF IMPROPER INTERNET LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF HARD-CORE GRAPHIC IMAGES. DRAMATICALLY ILLUSTRATING THE SECURITY PROBLEMS POSED BY THE RAPID GROWTH OF INTERNET COMPUTER NETWORK, ONE OF THE NATION'S THREE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LABS CONFIRMED MONDAY THAT COMPUTER HACKERS WERE USING ITS COMPUTERS TO STORE AND DISTRIBUTE HARD-CORE PORNOGRAPHY. EMABARRASED OFFICIALS AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY IN LIVERMORE, CALIF., WHICH CONDUCT A GREAT DEAL OF CLASSIFIED RESEARCH AND HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED SECURITY PROCEDURES, SAID THE INCIDENT WAS AMONG THE MOST SERIOUS BREACHES OF COMPUTER SECURITY EVER AT THE LAB EAST OF SAN FRANCISO.