Sentences with phrase «by malicious actors»

That was being used by malicious actors to scrape public profile information, it said.

This search technique was exploited by malicious actors to scrape public profile information.

Not only can the proper time be maintained permanently, it states, but the network is also protected from corruption if a single node is compromised by malicious actors.

While no one can dispute the use case of tracking criminals, one has to question whether such blockchain tech could be abused by malicious actors.

It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.

It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.

Our unmatched coverage of the cybercriminal underground allows us to conduct 24/7 monitoring for potential brand and reputation - damaging activity by malicious actors.

[DHS] believes the use of these devices by malicious actors to track and monitor cellular users would be unlawful and threaten the security of communications, resulting in safety, economic, and privacy risks.

Also exposed among these tools are numerous credentials, keys, hashes, usernames, and passwords to access other AIQ assets, including databases, social media accounts, and Amazon Web Services repositories, raising the possibility of attacks by any malicious actors encountering the exposure.»

Facebook says data of nearly all its users, which is around 2 billion, was possibly scraped and accessed by malicious actors.

These types of attacks aren't accidents (as in many cases of phishing), but planned, intentional attacks by malicious actors within an organization.

VTSIOM's general director, Valery Fyodorov, said that previous attempts at conducting online exits polls had failed due to interference by malicious actors:

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).

OPM will also provide educational materials and guidance to help them prevent identity theft, better secure their personal and work - related data, and become more generally informed about cyber threats and other risks presented by malicious actors.

Internet - connected toys may be cute and cuddly, but they can also be hijacked by malicious actors to spy on children and their parents.

«It wasn't an intended «feature» and is being leveraged by malicious actors.»

However, they had not been used by malicious actors nearly as much as EternalBlue because they didn't work on recent Windows versions.

While the Larimar trade has recently been corrupted by malicious actors due to the popularity of the gemstone, the Atlantis Blue Project seeks to use Stellar's blockchain to thwart this activity and restore its balance.

However, much remains unknown regarding the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, and society to manipulations by malicious actors.

The Bitcoin Blockchain has never been hacked thanks to all of the talented core developers who have devoted endless hours building this system to withstand the significant threat posed by malicious actors.

In a letter to Wyden, DHS official Christopher Krebs said that the use of cell - site simulators by malicious actors «threatens the security of communications, resulting in safety, economic, and privacy risks.»

The application notes each block's cryptographic hash value as an attractive feature, stating that the fact that a blockchain can not be modified by malicious actors acts as an effective security function in protecting asset ownership data.

DHS official Christopher Krebs, the top official leading the NPPD, added in a separate letter accompanying his response that such use «of IMSI catchers by malicious actors to track and monitor cellular users is unlawful and threatens the security of communications, resulting in safety, economic and privacy risks.»

«The data exposed in this cloud leak could be exploited by malicious actors employing a number of attack vectors already known to have been successful in the past.

Facebook's latest statement comes even as it has reported that the site's email and phone search feature was potentially misused by malicious actors and that data of nearly all of its 2 billion users was collected and accessed.

This means UTXOs can be confirmed by miners on both chains and can theoretically be manipulated by malicious actors, or other types of transaction mistakes can happen.

The company recently admitted that the data on most of its 2 billion users could be compromised by malicious actors, a strong sign that the social media giant is not only misusing consumer data, but failing to protect it.

Our unmatched coverage of the cybercriminal underground allows us to conduct 24/7 monitoring for potential brand and reputation - damaging activity by malicious actors, with specially trained teams ready to intervene at a moment's notice.

The DHS response continues: [DHS] believes the use of these devices by malicious actors to track and monitor cellular users would be unlawful and threaten the security of communications, resulting in safety, economic, and privacy risks.

However, the legitimate application can also be abused by malicious actors who install it on victim computers without the owners» knowledge, to gain unauthorized access to their machines.

Facebook has admitted that data of nearly all its 2 billion users was possibly scraped and accessed by malicious actors.

«All of this data could be easily used by malicious actors to steal identities and compromise the personal finances of NCF customers,» wrote Vickery in a blog post.

Facebook also said in the blog post Wednesday that «most people on Facebook» may have had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors.

Facebook has announced a sweeping overhaul of its data collection rules, and revealed that most people's accounts were likely targets of «scraping» by malicious actors.

Our unmatched coverage of the cybercriminal underground allows us to conduct 24/7 monitoring for potential brand and reputation - damaging activity by malicious actors.

Facebook has announced a sweeping overhaul of its data collection rules, and revealed that most people's accounts were likely targets of «scraping» by malicious actors.

It's unlikely, however, that a company like Apple, for instance, would integrate technology into its phones helping it distinguish between devices used by law enforcement and those used by malicious actors.

Tony Romm, Washington Post: In a blog post, you acknowledged that profile information had been scraped by malicious actors.

But one of the most troubling revelations in Schroepfer's post is that the search function on Facebook has also been used by malicious actors to acquire personal information from the user's public profiles.

Separately, it added that virtually all the platform's members are likely to have had their information scraped by malicious actors.

In a blog post, UpGuard said the data could have been «exploited by malicious actors» in phishing scams, for example.

In - brief: Close to five billion «fuzzing» tests conducted during 2016 reveal protocols used by industrial control systems, vehicles and Internet of Things devices to be weaker, on average, with many crashing hundreds of times and revealing vulnerabilities that could be used by malicious actors.

But new revelations from Facebook indicate the feature was also used by malicious actors to scrape the data of millions of Facebook users.

The DHS response continues: [DHS] believes the use of these devices by malicious actors to track and monitor cellular users would be...