Sentences with phrase «computer hackers for»

U.S. authorities are preparing to charge a group of traders and computer hackers for scheming to get early access to press releases about mergers and acquisitions...

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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.

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.

Recall, for instance, how hackers didn't attack Target's computer systems directly, but instead wormed their way in through a third party payment provider.

In the three years since the project got its start, the squad — a rotating group of a dozen veteran hackers — «has gained a reputation for being among the most effective computer bug exterminators on the planet,» Hackett writes.

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.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users» private data.

Both reports come as companies are feeling particularly vulnerable: In December's high - profile Operation Aurora, hackers targeted employees (and their social networks) from Google, Adobe Systems, and two dozen others, hunting for ways to infiltrate the companies» computer systems.

Using malware, hackers take control of an institution's computers, making it impossible for them to communicate with their equipment.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Collecting log - in information and answers to secret questions from your computer requires keylogging software, making it harder for malicious hackers to triumph.

When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko [in 2014], he found that everyone in the [president's] office used the same login password... Sometimes pressing the spacebar was enough to open a PC... Most computers run on pirated software, and even when licensed programs are used, they can be years out of date and lack security patches to help keep the hackers at bay.

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

Ransomware is basically a form of malware that lets hackers block people from accessing their computer or related computer networks so that a hacker can demand payment in return for access.

The site signed up some 12,000 paying subscribers, providing them with both primers for cyberattack and Trojan software, which hackers use to illegally control computers.

Aitel suggested that, rather than outsource tasks or projects to particular individuals without security clearance, the government could allow private companies specializing in penetration testing — the practice of testing a computer system, network or application to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit — to apply for security clearance and compete for a contract.

Recent Digital Citizens initiatives include working with state attorneys general to educate citizens about the proper disposal of opioids and other dangerous drugs, a look into how new pirate devices and apps enable hackers to infect consumers» computers, and an investigation into how millions of college emails and passwords are for sale on the Dark Web.

It's also the currency of choice for hackers who have invaded the computers of everyone from hospitals to police departments.

It is omnipresent in the news — from the FBI attempt to force Apple to create a «backdoor» for the iPhone to the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital payment to regain computer system control from hackers.

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.

Most business owners understand that the personally identifiable customer information they have on their computers is a target for hackers and that their online presence leaves them open to liability claims.

Ransomware hackers breach and encrypt computer systems, offering to decrypt it in return for a bitcoin - denominated ransom.

The problem with that is that if you have a hospital with 300 computers, you end up with 300 access points for a hacker to try and use.

Chinese hackers have established a reputation for low - tech «phishing,» the sending of disguised emails to get a company's employees or a government's bureaucrats to allow the attackers access to their computer networks.

In April 2011, hackers damaged the computer network of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, a major banking institution, suspending its service for four days.

However, there is another level of technopower in the hands of «hackers» - those who have a high level of expertise in computer technology and are able to infiltrate and usurp control of cyberspace at will (precisely what has happened recently when Yahoo! was suspended for over three hours due to a hacker «prank.»)

Mr Johnson restated his claims he was utterly powerless to stop the extradition of Mr McKinnon, a UFO enthusiast and computer hacker, who is facing a court case in the US for hacking into Pentagon computers.

Rees, who worked for the Mirror Group as well as the New of the World, is also accused of using a specialist computer hacker in July 2006 to steal information about MI6 agents who had infiltrated the Provisional IRA.

For a hacker using a single computer, the job would have required a hundred years of processing time.

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.

Two months later, hackers used what they had gleaned from that attack to infiltrate computers belonging to the defence contractor Lockheed Martin, which relied on those tokens for their security.

The shortcomings of the Internet were emphasised in early February, when the response team announced that unknown hackers had installed «sniffer» programs around the Internet that secretly recorded the passwords for tens of thousands of computers.

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.

He is the author of a new paper in the Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics that explains how a code he wrote for a doctoral thesis, the Generalized Knapsack Code, could thwart hackers armed with next generation quantum computers.

In theory, quantum computers would allow hackers to crack today's toughest coded messages and researchers to better simulate molecules for designing new drugs and materials.

Thanks to the increasing speed of computers, hackers have been able to crack the aging cipher, so NIST decided in 1997 to look for a replacement.

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A U.S. appellate court ruled that the FTC has the authority to sue Wyndham Hotels for allowing hackers to steal more than 600K customers» data from its computer systems in 2008 and 2009, leading to more than $ 10 million in fraudulent charges.

The film stars Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, a computer hacker who searches for the...

February 18, 2016 • A Los Angeles hospital paid the equivalent of $ 17,000 in Bitcoins to hackers who took over medical records and shut down the hospital's computer servers for days.

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.

And while I'm not sure that the Sam Crawford (Lynn Collins) character has any real - life analogue, «Papa» Joe Bradford (Michael Ealy) is a real guy, a former computer hacker who has been doing good work with so - called «at - risk» kids on the meaner streets of Nashville, Tenn., for years.

As Channing McClaren learns that a murdered computer hacker was paid for information about the late Naomi Walling, Patty (Glenn Close) and Ellen (Rose Byrne) take a tense trip to Maine to interview an expert witness whom they hope can shed some light on insider trading practices at Princefield Investments.

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).

She's conveniently thrown into the mix as a significant part of the plot and to assure Hawke has a pretty face to bounce off, with her young computer hacker coming in handy and filling in the conversational blanks for a clueless Magna.

In the meantime, we get Bond and M working together to find and stop the computer hacker (Bardem) who's infiltrated MI6 for reasons that turn out to be more personal than global.

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.