Sentences with phrase «computer hackers in»

Hackers come in from the cold: Governments should spend less money on spies in trench coats and more on computer hackers in anoraks.

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.

Despite the closeness of the big event, Ben begs to «ride along» with James on an assignment to hunt down a suspicious computer hacker in Miami.

Not exact matches

In an effort to capture personal and business details, hackers have developed malicious programs that can infect a computer that can record every keystroke the person makes on the keyboard.

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.

Meanwhile, the phenomenon of crypto - jacking — in which hackers hijack your computer to mine digital currency — has quickly morphed from a novelty to a big league threat.

In September, the U.S. government moved to ban the use of Kaspersky products from government computers after it was revealed that Russian hackers managed to obtain U.S. National Security Agency information through the software two years ago.

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.

More hackers realize there's big money in taking over the computers of firms and demanding cash to set the data free.

Palo Alto Networks doesn't know how much Monero the hackers have mined with their malware, but it's been targeting computers mainly in Southeast Asia, North Africa and South America.

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.

The takeover offer came in the wake of revelations that Chinese hackers broke into computers at the National Research Council in 2014.

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.

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.

Hackers used malware similar to that described in the FBI report to launch attacks on businesses in highly destructive attacks in South Korea and the Middle East, including one against oil producer Saudi Aramco that knocked out some 30,000 computers.

Stuart McClure, the CEO of security startup Cylance, told Fortune's Robert Hackett that «there is nothing new» in how hackers are breaching computer defenses.

Iranian hackers infiltrated the computer system at a small dam in a quiet village 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a report on Monday.

Another popular phishing method is to get you to click on a link in the email, which then installs malware that could potentially give hackers free reign to your computer.

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.

Additionally, the Pentagon created a bug bounty program in March to entice hackers to break into its computer systems and networks — and of course tell officials about vulnerabilities so they can fix them.

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.

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.

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.

The hackers planted the malware in bank computers via infected e-mails (posing as bank employees) targeting the main admin computer.

Carter mentioned that the government is already adopting some Silicon Valley practices like its recently announced bug bounty program in which the government offers rewards to altruistic hackers who can crack into the Pentagon's computer systems.

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

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.

In April, Adobe issued an emergency update to Flash after security researchers found a flaw that allowed hackers to distribute so - called ransomware to owners of Microsoft Windows personal computers.

The first sign of Moscow's meddling came in September 2015, when the FBI first noticed that Russian hackers had infiltrated a computer system belonging to the Democratic National Committee.

HACKERS NEEDED: Mrs. Fields Inc. is seeking knowledgeable computer professionals... A variety of positions are available in the most technologically advanced company in the restaurant industry.

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.

It then replaced every compromised computer and set up new defenses in hopes of keeping hackers out.

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.

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.

The maintainers of the Bitmessage P2P encrypted communications protocol have released a fix after discovering that hackers were using a zero - day in attempts to steal Bitcoin wallet files from users» computers.

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.

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

Digest: Bitcoin Debit Playing cards in EU, BTC Transaction Charges, Hackers Attacked Atlanta's Authorities Computer systems

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

Instead, they ended up in the hands of a mysterious group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, which has since provided hackers with tools that infected millions of computers around the world, crippling hospitals, factories and businesses.

Details of the Cyberattack On April 14th, suspected hackers took over the computer system of the Leominster Public Schools District in Massachusetts, shutting it down.

«Yesterday morning at about 1 a.m. a hacker or a group of hackers was able to infiltrate our systems through a compromised company computer,» NiceHash CEO Marko Kobal said in a video statement Thursday.

Several of these hackers are engineering or computer science students or young professionals with day jobs, confident that the encrypted world they operate in wont give them away.

Whether the customer is Russia or the United States, overlooked errors in software code can allow foreign governments and hackers to penetrate a user's computer.

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.»)

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to do more to stop «ransomware» cyberattacks in which hackers seize control of a business's or government's computers and demand payment to release them.

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.

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.

Witnesses told the paper that Cambridge Analytica was then offered material from Israeli computer hackers amid election campaigns in Nigeria and St Kitts and Nevis.