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The cable series follows a young computer programmer who works for a cybersecurity company but leads a secret life as a hacker who works with an insurrectionist group that launches cyber attacks against large corporations.

During last week's attack, hackers were able to use publicly available source code to help crack into millions of Internet - connected devices, such as cameras and printers.

Last Friday's enormous cyber attack that brought down popular websites and online services like Amazon (amzn) and Netflix (nflx) was likely caused by a non-state actor, otherwise known as hackers without ties to any specific state or government.

• Britain's GCHQ waged war on hacker groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, mounting Distributed Denial - of - Service attacks and infiltrating their chat rooms.

A pre-installed program on some newly purchased Dell laptops that can only be removed manually by consumers makes them vulnerable to cyber intrusions that may allow hackers to read encrypted messages and redirect browser traffic to spoofs of real websites such as Google or those belonging to a bank, among other attacks.

Hackers attacked the school's computer systems in January, gaining access to personal information of current and former students as well as staff and faculty members.

As such, it can't be used to attack routers, but hackers can still eavesdrop on traffic, making it particularly dangerous for corporations.

Yet the technology news site Re / code reported that Sony was investigating to determine whether hackers working on behalf of North Korea were responsible for the attack as retribution for the company's backing of the film «The Interview.»

In 2013, a group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army attacked the Times and other media outlets.

«Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations, the officials said,» CNN reported.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

Last year, North Korea hackers allegedly attacked Sony Pictures before the premiere of The Interview starring Seth Rogen as a journalist on a mission to kill the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.

In a blog post, Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman speaks out about the attack, as well as why the company refuses to pay the hackers the $ 300 ransom they asked for.

Now, hackers are infiltrating these abandoned websites more than ever and using the websites as tools for their attacks.

News of this latest attack comes just a week after a similar one on United Airlines (which security experts have linked to the same group of hackers), and appears to be part of a broad wave of attacks on American companies and institutions such as the insurer Anthem Inc. and the U.S. government's personnel office.

As more things become connected, attacks will range from a hacker taking pictures of Miss Teen USA on her webcam without her knowing to the significant attack on control systems of factories.»

Cyber security software firm Tanium has raised $ 120 million from investment firms as more U.S. federal agencies rely on its technology to fend off attacks from nation - states and hackers, the company announced Wednesday.

The officials said the Kremlin was often utilizing what were known as man - in - the - middle attacks, in which hackers secretly inserted themselves into the exchange of data between a computer or server in order to eavesdrop, collect confidential information, misdirect payments or further compromise security.

Planned Parenthood claimed computer hackers hindered traffic to its websites on Wednesday, the second cyber attack against the organization this week as a controversy continues over...

As a defensive tactic against ransomware attacks, corporations have been noted to buy «emergency funds» of 50 to 100 bitcoins to be able to negotiate with hackers.

As of this writing, there is practically no way to recover files encrypted by the Thanatos ransomware attack - even the team of hackers which developed the Thanatos ransomware, in all probability, can not recover the files.

Cybersecurity is a large and explosive market as hackers continue to regularly attack companies and individuals.

As hackers turn their attention to these data centres, it becomes increasingly challenging to protect them from physical and cyber attacks.

That was not lost on the pro-Israel hackers who in 2008 attacked Hamas websites, or the mysterious American hacker known as The Jester, who has been attacking al - Qaida - affiliated recruitment sites.

Especially cruel hackers know that lives are on the line when they hold a hospital's computer systems hostage, as they did in the May 12 attack dubbed WannaCry, which locked down many overseas hospitals with the demand for a ransom.

A hacker known only as The Puppet Master is believed to be responsible for an attack using an outdated virus.

But Sony is approaching this follow - up as more of a reboot than a sequel, recasting The Crown's Claire Foy as hacker Lisbeth Salander and leaping ahead to the fourth book in the Millennium series (itself a kind of reboot, given that it was written by David Lagercrantz, who took over after Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004).

Chen notices that part of the computer code used in the attacks was co-written by him as a student at MIT, so he convinces the U.S. government to make a deal with the program's lead architect, imprisoned hacker Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth), in exchange for his help.

Each platform buckled under the weight of DDOS attack and hackers during the holiday season, though the PSN hack of 2011 (in which hackers stole the personal data of thousands of customers) still remains as a serious red mark against PSN more than four years later.

Lizard Squad are a «hacker group» that revel in attacking online game services such as PSN and Xbox Live.

Gaming platform Steam is dealing with regular attacks from hackers who are stealing and selling user data, as well as malware attacks and phishing, researchers warn.

Following a rather harmless, albeit annoying DDoS attack that has downed the PlayStation Network, the group of hackers claiming responsibility known as Lizard Group have now diverted the flight carrying Sony Online Entertainment's president John Smedley via a tweet to American Airlines about the flight having reported explosives aboard.

Seems PlayStation Network users are running into some issues today, a day prior to the maintenance scheduled for Monday from 12 pm Eastern through 7:30 pm due to an alleged DDoS attack by a group of hackers claiming responsibility known as the Lizard Squad.

If Jerry Lewis were running for President against Hilary Clinton, French hackers might very well have done the same thing as Russian hackers: attack Hilary's campaign and hope that Jerry wins.

Law firms should take these attacks against big oil as a warning — and should bear in mind the FBI's advisory in late 2010 that law firms are increasingly the targets of hackers.

Entrepreneurial hackers are cashing in by selling malware and attack / infiltration packages as an off - the - shelf service marketed commercially over the Dark Web.

The CIA's web site was shut down for several days as a result, while the hackers who attacked NATO claimed they had infiltrated the organizations» computers and obtained classified documents; the United Nations, law firms in Canada and the United States, and Ontario's courts have been hacked over the last several months.

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The insurance would cover damage and losses caused by hacker attacks, unauthorised access and other cyber threats, as well as human factors including employees» mistakes.

Instead, the hackers went with what's known as an amplification attack.

A DDoS attack is one of the most common methods employed by hackers to take websites down: it involves bombarding sites with more traffic than they can handle, so as to overwhelm their servers and cause enough crashes to take the site offline temporarily.

The blockchain start - up was the victim of a data leak where user credentials such as names and email addresses were stolen by a team of hackers for use in this attack.

As the cryptocurrency rates grow, hackers attack centralised exchanges more and more frequently, stealing the customers» assets.

Apple removed the apps, but the AceDeceiver attack remains a danger to Chinese iPhone users, as the hackers still have authorization codes from Apple.

Very recently a major South Korean crypto exchange known as Bithumb had fallen prey to the malicious attack of hackers in June causing investors to lose millions of funds.

The hacker that attacked The DAO allegedly published an open letter to the community representing his actions as completely lawful.

Inchain was launched as a sensible solution for investors as cryptocurrency platforms and wallet services are increasingly coming under attack by hackers.

There is also an infamous group of hackers, known as the 51crew, who have attacked Shift and Krypton blockchain clones.