Hakers Pwned!

I was reading this yahoo news
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080812/tc_afp/usitinternetcrimehackerdefcon;_ylt=AoGBACPw6F24T0BcQ5RiDGCKfD8C
Here is the summery!

"Pwned" is popular computer and video game culture slang playing off the word "owned" and is used to describe someone being totally dominated or humiliated online or in-game.

"It's a nearly invisible exploitation," Kapela said while revealing a hack that exploits fundamental Internet routing procedure to hijack online traffic unnoticed. "A level of invisibility that is unparalled."

After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday that their online activities were hijacked without them catching on.

A standing-room crowd cheered admiringly as Tony Kapela and Alex Pilosov showed them how they were "pwned" by a simple technique that could be used to "steal the Internet."

The presentation capped a DefCon gathering attended by more than 8,000 people.

Hackers shared ways to crack everything from mobile telephones, computer games and social networking websites to electronic hospital records and high security locks used at the White House.

One seminar included a way to remotely turn off pacemakers regulating people's heartbeats.