Sentences with phrase «gained access to users»

They claimed that hacker gained access to users account information and their disposable passwords used to verify financial transactions, which allowed him to drain the accounts of the victims.

In an email sent in February to ZDNET by Yahoo, the company explained that state - sponsored attackers gained access to users» accounts, using what it regarded as sophisticated cookie forging...

In an email sent in February to ZDNET by Yahoo, the company explained that state - sponsored attackers gained access to users» accounts, using what it regarded as sophisticated cookie forging...

Cybercriminals exploited a WordPress vulnerability to breach LoanBase, a bitcoin lending site, and they may have gained access to user info.

With Cambridge Analytica, a third party gained access to user data and then gave or sold it to the data analytics company; there are other examples of third - party apps selling Facebook data to data brokers, which can then reuse it on Facebook and elsewhere.

Jessi Hempel, Wired senior writer, and James Cakmak, Monness Crespi, Hardt & Company stock analyst, provide insight to Facebook's challenges after claims Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to user data.

According to Mr. Frind, a hacker from Argentina named Chris Russo co-ordinated a sophisticated two day attack on Plenty of Fish's servers in an attempt to gain access to user data and extort the site's owners.

Teens can sign up for Kik and instantly gain access to all users — even if they aren't «friends» or in your contact list.

Facebook has also stated that Kogan gained access to user's private information «through the proper channels that governed all developers on Facebook at that time.»

If attackers gain access to a user's credentials, they can watch activities and transactions, manipulate data (truly, the manipulation of data may be scarier than a data breach), return falsified information and redirect clients to illegitimate sites.

Tayler served as the company's chief data officer in 2015 when Facebook first raised concerns that Cambridge had gained access to the user data via British academic Aleksandr Kogan, in violation of the social network's terms of service.

For one, though Zuckerberg repeatedly promised that Facebook would conduct a «full forensic audit» of which apps may have gained access to user data without their full consent before tighter rules took effect in 2014, he was unable to offer any details on if other companies had absconded with user data.

With extended permissions, developers could even gain access to a user's private messages.

Third parties could easily gain access to user information by mining for raw user data on the Dark Web and then feeding random phone numbers and email addresses into Facebook's search engine.

Media streaming service Plex has announced that it suffered a breach on its forums, with the hacker managing to gain access to users» IP addresses, email addresses, hashed and salted passwords and private messages.

The press release goes on to state that the company long ago stopped using Superfish, and it also claims «we are not aware of any actual instances of a third party exploiting the vulnerabilities to gain access to a user's communications,» which is not exactly reassuring.

The firm said that hackers could use two exploits to gain access to users» personal data, including their real names, usernames and phone numbers, through Snapchat's Android and iOS API.

There's no way to gain access to a user's files without their password on a Chromebook.

«Once an intruder gains access to the user's iPhone and knows (or recovers) the passcode, there is no single extra layer of protection left,» wrote Oleg Afonin, a researcher for Russian forensics firm Elcomsoft, in a blog posting last week.

Not exact matches

Cambridge Analytica was accused of improperly gaining access to the sensitive user information for as many as 87 million Facebook users.

Cambridge Analytica was accused of improperly gaining access to the sensitive user information of Facebook users.

It uses a unique camera system to map a user's face on the fly, and depth - sensing technology allows you to unlock your device, use Apple Pay, and gain access to secure apps.

After news that political research firm Cambridge Analytica was able to gain access to unauthorized user data through the guise of a personality quiz, Facebook found itself in hot water.

The app lets users gain root access to the device without the need for unlocking its bootloader — which is a way to say that malicious users could get to the core of a OnePlus phone and install malware with ease, although they would likely need physical access to it.

In addition, Gizmodo reports that there is no evidence that Uber ever took advantage of this access to gain personal information from Uber users.

The data breaches, which involved hackers gaining access to data for hundreds of millions of Yahoo users, took place in 2013 and 2014.

And should companies be allowed to encrypt user data so that agencies that do gain access see only gibberish?

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

The main goal then: keeping unauthorized users from gaining access to government or company buildings, computer systems and information.

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Zuckerberg faced tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media tools in the wake of reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

In recent days, a series of reports have detailed how Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining firm, gained access to personal data on 50 million Facebook users and relied on it as part of its work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.

The company is facing questions following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained calm under pressure during five hours of questioning by U.S. senators about a series of recent crises culminating with the latest involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that gained access to data about up to 87 million Facebook users.

This change was made to ensure a third - party was not able to access a user's friends» data without gaining permission first.

that Cambridge Analytica had gained unauthorized access to information about tens of millions of Facebook users.

Facebook is facing questions of its data handling following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Facebook is facing questions following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

The social media giant is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Perhaps it was an inflated sense of public trust, an attitude of invincibility, or an unwillingness to own up to responsibility that led Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and other Facebook executives to take a painfully long time to formulate a response to the news that data firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to millions of its users» data three years ago.

Much of the news this past week has focused on what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did — or did not do — when he found out that Cambridge Analytica had gained unauthorized access to information about tens of millions of Facebook users.

As part of testimony submitted to the Senate's Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, wrote, «In the future, intelligence services might use the (Internet of things) for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials.»

In 2014, Cambridge Analytica gained access to the Facebook data of tens of millions of people with a technique widely used during that time to collect information on Facebook users.

Hackers on the same Wi - Fi network as Tinder users can now gain access to their photos.

But the news that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, was able to gain access to private data through the social network has sparked an unusually strong reaction among its users.

In turn, technology and service innovators with scalable business models can gain unprecedented access to end users and validate use cases to remain competitive.

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The research firm was accused of improperly gaining access to the sensitive user information of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

Starting in 2013, the New York Times reports that a UK - based Palantir employee worked with Cambridge Analytica — going on to gain access to the dataset of 50M + Facebook users the latter firm obtained in 2014 via a third party personality quiz app deployed on the social network giant's platform.

This approach would permit the company to maintain its involvement across multiple lines of business and permit it to enjoy the benefits of scale while mitigating the concern that Amazon could unfairly advantage its own business or unfairly discriminate among platform users to gain leverage or market power.444 Coupling nondiscrimination with common carrier obligations — requiring platforms to ensure open and fair access to other businesses — would further limit Amazon's power to use its dominance in anticompetitive ways.