Sentences with phrase «by computer hacker»

August 2009: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson The second outing by computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Michael Blomqvist — following The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — made serious waves in 2009.

To hold a private key, it's possible to encrypt bitcoin wallets with a private password, but this is generally the most basic level of security and one that could potentially be breached by computer hackers or viruses.

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On the hunt for easy pickings, hackers are attacking these security - poor businesses, typically with indiscriminate, automated assaults that could be stopped by basic security tools and computer hygiene.

Watch Out for Evil Twins Be aware of the methods a company or vendor uses to communicate with you, because hackers sometimes gain access to computers, data and accounts by posing as legitimate companies or agencies.

According to a much - pored over report by the Wall Street Journal, an NSA hacker flouted protocol (and all common sense) two years ago by taking work home to a personal computer that ran Kaspersky software.

One of multiple botnet - controlling computer servers used by the hacker is already communicating with more than 10,000 potentially compromised devices per day, Qihoo's researchers said.

Summary: «Follows Elliot Alderson, a young computer programmer with an anxiety disorder, who is recruited by Mr Robot and his anarchist team of hackers «fsociety.»»

Hackers infected a computer network operated by San Francisco's public railway system with malicious software over Thanksgiving weekend.

The movie gets this balance right by keeping almost all of the dialogue in plain English, but throwing in just enough hacker talk to remind us the characters are hard - core computer guys.

As your business gets more dependent on technology, your computer becomes more targeted by hackers and others constantly on the prowl for vulnerabilities.

The latest notable casualty is a Hollywood - area hospital that had its internal hospital computer system shut down by hackers who demanded $ 3.7 million in ransom this week.

A Russian hacker has confessed, in court, to being hired by Russian state intelligence to hack the Democratic National Congress» computer systems in 2016.

Computers can become infected with malware that transmits your passwords to hackers, so it's important to minimize the risks by running frequent antivirus scans and limiting the types of computer use that may increase your exposure to malware.

However, documents released by one of the hackers suggest many vital agency functions have been compromised, including payroll, email servers, Quickbooks, NextBus operations, various MySQL database servers, staff training and personal computers for hundreds of employees.

However, since the currency only exists as ones and zeroes in a computer program — not unlike most of the money we use via credit cards, etc. — it can also be stolen by hackers, as one user has claimed that his Bitcoin bank account was.

Conficker downloaded and installed malicious software to computer systems from sites controlled by hackers.

He alleged hackers had gained access to the IEBC computer system by using the identity of the commission's IT manager, Chris Msando, who was killed last month.

Home secretary Alan Johnson rejected claims that Britain's extradition reputation was «going to hell in a hand cart», as he was grilled by MPs over the potential extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee confirmed Friday that its computer network was breached by Russian government hackers.

The FBI is investigating the computer networks of reporters at U.S. news organizations, including the New York Times, that were breached by suspected Russian government hackers, CNN reported Tuesday.

Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden, hackers have built bugs that can be attached to computers to steal information in a host of intrusive ways

Compiled by Eric Raymond, the second edition of The New Hacker's Dictionary (MIT Press, pp 505, # 12.50) is a staggering collection of words and phrases that computer hackers use to communicate.

Two computer hackers who broke into hundreds of systems including those run by the Ministry of Defence, NASA, and the merchant bank SG Warburg, were each jailed for six months last week.

Once compromised, vast botnets are created - sometimes millions of puppet computers controlled by hackers.

A computer hacker (Reeves) learns that his entire life has been a virtual dream, orchestrated by a strange class of computer overlords in the far future.

A computer hacker who is unsatisfied with his life is contacted by a mysterious stranger who reveals to him that the «real world» is in fact a computer generated simulation designed to subjugate the human race.

Among the team members are Phelps» sexy, younger wife, Claire (Emmanuelle Beart), and a humorless operative named Sarah (Kristin Scott - Thomas), along with a computer hacker played by an unbilled star.

We meet Emily (Malin Akerman), an old flame of Ben that has other plans for him; An accountant (Byung - hun Lee) who works at the law firm by day, but moonlights as a hit man, with religious intentions and stage - four Tuberculosis to boot; and Doug (Glen Powell) Ben's best friend and colleague, who is a lawyer by day but a computer hacker at night.

Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit) stars as enigmatic WikiLeaks founder and director Julian Assange, who would go from computer hacker to the figurehead for one of the most subversive movements on the internet — a man who was feared by governments, hated by corporations, and praised by those who think these entities have far too much power over individuals.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R for rape, torture, brutal violence, profanity, frontal nudity and graphic sexuality) David Fincher directs the English - language version of the Swedish thriller based on the first installment of the Stieg Larsson trilogy about the effort of a disgraced journalist (Daniel Craig) to restore his name by solving a decades - old missing person case with the help of a sociopathic computer hacker (Rooney Mara).

As we reported back in August, the lead role of badass computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is being played by Rooney Mara (The Social Network, A Nightmare on Elm Street), and recently she was spotted out in public showing off her new haircut and piercings.

Film Review by Kam Williams Brain - Altered Convict Chases International Terrorists in High Body - Count, Action Thriller CIA Agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) was in London on assignment to deliver a ransom to a computer hacker called the «The Dutchman» (Michael Pitt) when he was assassinated en route by a terrorist (Jordi Molla) with a vicious gun moll (Antje Traue).

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.

Director Leo Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves ambitiously contain the entire story to a continuous shot of a glitchy computer monitor where the main character clicks through her iTunes library, her deceased friend's Facebook photos and a group Skype chat infiltrated by the «hacker ghost.»

They'll be joined by civilian new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).

In 1983, Ally Sheedy catapulted to stardom as Jennifer, the beautiful girl next door, in WarGames, about a computer hacker (played by Matthew Broderick) whose innocent prying turns into a game gone very wrong, with potentially global consequences.

The operation is conducted at the request of Pope's superior, Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman), as he's attempting to locate a computer hacker (Michael Pitt) who's also being sought by psychotic entrepreneur Xavier Heimdahl (Jordi Mollà, awful as always).

CIA Agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) was in London on assignment to deliver a ransom to a computer hacker called the «The Dutchman» (Michael Pitt) when he was assassinated en route by a terrorist (Jordi Molla) with a vicious gun moll (Antje Traue).

The entire video is narrated by Charlie Cole, an expert computer hacker and Sam's tech and gadget support guy in Blacklist.

The film's story follows Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a computer programmer by day and a hacker by nigh (under the pseudonym Neo).

The website launched in January 2007 was founded by Julian Assange, an Australian former computer hacker.

As more of our lives are run by computers, new frontiers continue to open to hackers.

Nuwere grew up poor in a violent New York; by the time he was 15, he had become a computer hacker and sleuth.

Bloody Monday, written by Ryou Ryumon and illustrated by Kouji Megumi, is an exciting thriller about a computer hacker's attempt to foil a terrorist plot!

You need to be moderately comfortable in using your computer's disk tools, but by no means do you need to be a hacker.

I am a former network manager who has been beating computers into submission since 1976 but I was still having a terrible time getting through the info generated by most hacker / rooting experts because they make so many references to arcane technologies, tricks, or just internal hacker lingo that it is hard to follow.

Why BLACK HAT is a Top Computer Security Blog: Those looking for a blog for hackers, by hackers will find what they're looking for on Black Hat's site.

I'm a formally educated anthropologist and former computer hacker (the good kind), currently traveling full - time completely funded by my travel blogs.

Since the early days of the Cyberpunk pen - and - paper role - playing setting, I've been fascinated by the idea of highly - skilled computer hackers roaming the plains of cyberspace looking for a fight; digital cowboys with their fingers twitching inches away from their plastic 101 - shooters.

Disruption is a two - player competitive game about one player trolling the other, created by a group of hackers from the Hull University computer science department.