Sentences with phrase «cybercriminals doing»

Yes, Kaspersky Labs will be gathering (anonymized) data from your machine, but that's better than cybercriminals doing the same thing.

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Nilsson, as he routinely did with his findings, dashed off an email to Gary Alford, a special agent with the IRS in New York who has helped catch cybercriminals.

UBTech's Alpha series home robots did not encrypt sensitive information they captured before storing or transmitting it, opening an avenue for cybercriminals to potentially steal important personal information, IOActive said.

And cybercriminals are doing just that by finding some loopholes in the project.

Of course, Apple would do our best to protect that key, but in a world where all of our data is under constant threat, it would be relentlessly attacked by hackers and cybercriminals.

March 25, 2016 • Each year, cybercriminals expand their efforts to trick people into misdirecting their tax refunds, or paying fines they don't owe.

In turn, this can help to accelerate return on investment in technology and ensure that modern learning facilities do not become easy targets for opportunist cybercriminals.

You don't have to use online banking to become a target for cybercriminals — in fact, using online banking can help you detect unauthorized activity.

They don't discriminate either; cybercriminals target any sized company from every sector.

Cybercriminals and state - sponsored hackers alike have attacked law firms, large and small — and they are all too often successful because employees are not trained in safe computing, security patches and updates are not installed, out - of - support software (receiving no security updates) continues to be used, and they do not employ encryption.

It is not reasonable to think that a cybercriminal would spend time and money on an attack that does not offer immediate returns.

In addition, for the information a firm does retain, a strong data retention policy can ensure that information that is no longer needed for any immediate work is archived to a location where it is only accessible to a few select users, making it more difficult for a cybercriminal to access it.

A cybercriminal can not steal what a firm does not have.

If you elect to do online banking, it is important to consider that trust accounts frequently hold thousands of dollars and thus are highly attractive to cybercriminals.

To be fair, most exchanges have dedicated security teams and do a decent job of protecting their stash of private keys against cybercriminals.

While bitcoin's volatility means its value can rise or drop by thousands of dollars in just a matter of hours, its potential high value could make it something of a savings account or investment opportunity for professional cybercriminals who don't want to spend all their illicit earnings immediately, and prefer to play a long game instead.

Cybercriminals, spies, overeager retailers and even internet service providers can watch what you do online — but only if you let them.

While bitcoin does offer users a level of anonymity, it's not impossible to uncover the owners of bitcoin wallets — a tactic which has helped cybersecurity researchers and the authorities track down and arrest some cybercriminals.

For criminals, Monero in particular comes with a big advantage over bitcoin - it's completely anonymous, meaning its users can't be traced; bitcoin does offer some level of privacy, but it isn't total - cybercriminal actors have been traced thanks to analysis of the bitcoin wallet.

Through the efforts made in the past and the ones being made now, we can see the overwhelming need for decentralized services that are not operated by a central authority and are thus considered more secure as they do not provide cybercriminals with centralized points of failure that can be easily compromised.

Cybercriminals, whose attacks cost organizations millions of dollars a year, do extensive research on their targets.

This is because on most cryptocurrencies, once transactions are done they can not be refunded as well as due to the pseudonymous nature of the most digital currencies, which makes it easier for cybercriminals to get away with their crimes.