Sentences with phrase «allowing malicious actors»

They claim billions of devices are vulnerable, allowing malicious actors to gain access to passwords and other sensitive data without leaving a trace.

The strategy across the board though must be to remove the incentives that allow malicious actors to profit.

A pair of security researchers in the U.K. have released a paper [PDF] documenting what they describe as the «first real world detection of a backdoor» in a microchip — an opening that could allow a malicious actor to monitor or change the information on the chip.

This memory leak can be catastrophic as it allows malicious actors to access data from the memory in the kernel.

Dutch researchers have revealed a glitch that allowed malicious actors to fraudulently credit their Coinbase accounts with unlimited Ethereum since as early as December 2017.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, after admitting that its system could have allowed «malicious actors» to gather data on most of its 2 billion users, Facebook opted to immediately remove access to several sets of data previously accessible to developers via Instagram and Facebook's APIs.

This «heartbeat» basically punctuates the synchronisation of system state and guarantees that maintaining a fork (to allow double spend) or rewriting history by malicious actors are impossible unless the attacker possesses more than half of the network mining power (this is the so called 51 % attack).

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Facebook also said «malicious actors» abused a feature that allowed users to find each others» phone numbers and email addresses.

Facebook also said «malicious actors» have been scraping public profiles via its search and account recovery feature, a tool that allowed users to find people by entering their phone number or email address.

Facebook also said it will no longer allow people to search for a person by entering their email and phone number, a feature that has facilitated «malicious actors,» who have used it to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses.

Facebook has also disabled the feature that allowed anyone to find users with their phone numbers or email addresses, as this was being misused by «malicious actors».

«Most» Facebook users likely have had their public profile data skimmed from the site by «malicious actors» using a tool that allowed them to find people via just their phone numbers or email addresses, he said.

A feature allowing people to enter someone else's phone number or email address into a Facebook search to find them on the platform has been disabled, after being abused by unspecified «malicious actors» who harvested the public profiles of most of Facebook's two billion users.