Sentences with phrase «hacker access»

Poor passwords risk giving hackers access to private documents, servers and credit card files that businesses are obligated to keep safe — and a security breach can ruin the reputation of a company.

The infographic below illustrates the most common ways hackers access data and the mistakes consumers make that leave them vulnerable to becoming victims.

This process could possibly compromise secure information and allow hackers access to private data.

That gives hackers access to anything in memory, including security keys, user names and passwords, emails and documents.

«Hackers accessed people's names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver's license numbers,» according to the FTC website.

A critical encryption vulnerability in Lenovo's ThinkPad Manager Pro software exposes laptops running Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 could allow hackers access into a user's computer by bypassing fingerprint recognition, the company confirmed last week in a security advisory.

The extramarital dating site was subject to a massive data breach, with hackers accessing the personal information of over 37m users, along with...

The company has said that it believes that hackers accessed Equifax Canada's systems through a consumer website application intended for use by U.S. consumers.

Ex-NSA analyst Patrick Wardle has discovered that malicious third - party apps could let hackers access plaintext passwords stored in Apple's Keychain with the macOS High Sierra update.

Cyber crime insurance protects your company from large financial losses related to lawsuits that can happen if hackers access your computer system, thereby putting your customers and other individuals at risk for identity theft and fraud.

HACKER ACCESSES BILLING RECORDS OF 280,000 OKLAHOMA STATE PATIENTS: In November last year, a hacker reportedly broke into the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSUCHS) network gaining access to the Medicaid billing information of almost 280,000 patients, according to Healthcare IT News.

As with any company that stores user information on a central database, the danger of hackers accessing that database is always looming.

Uber failed to notify some 57 million users that their data — including names, email addresses, phone numbers and driver's license numbers — was exposed when hackers accessed that information in 2016, newly minted CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement on Tuesday.

From hackers accessing the live feed of your babe in his crib, to static interference from the neighbors» electronic devices, baby monitors aren't perfect.

Hackers accessed Uber's private development area within GitHub, an online resource for developers — they essentially went in through the tradesman's entrance.

The reason for the additional layer of security is that the passwords can be reset by hackers accessing email (see Yahoo data breach, above).

As ZDNet reports, Yahoo has revealed that the humungous 2013 data breach didn't see hackers access data belonging to one billion user accounts...

These AceDeceiver - related apps then repeatedly asks users to enter their Apple IDs and passwords, which gives hackers access to private user information.

An online dating company has been found in breach of privacy laws after hackers accessed the personal information of about 245,000 of its Australian users.

Hackers accessed data belonging to 57 million Uber riders and drivers in late 2016, including email addresses, phone numbers, and drivers license numbers.

One of the main challenges is that most people don't know how to set up and maintain a secure network in their home, which can lead to compromised or stolen data or potentially allow hackers access to critical devices such as heart rate monitors or dialysis machines.

The extramarital dating site was subject to a massive data breach, with hackers accessing the personal information of over 37m users, along with sensitive company information.

The credit data company added that hackers accessed Equifax Inc.'s systems through a consumer website application intended for use by U.S. consumers.

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That's how investigators believe the hackers accessed the State Department's systems, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Hackers accessed a JavaScript file in Browsealoud and injected it with coding that converts any server running the software into a crypto miner.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

Some «Fortnite» players took to Reddit and the «Fortnite» forum to report that hackers accessed their accounts and made fraudulent charges.

«Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account.

Actress Christina Hendricks has alerted authorities in the U.S. after a hacker accessed her phone and stole a series of sexy pictures.The Mad Men...

They're not even sure which records the hackers accessed or potentially taken.

The breach affected 143 million consumers and the hackers accessed Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, and driver's license numbers.

While this technology is great for keeping family photos and other information accessible, think carefully before storing personal documents that could give a hacker access to your bank accounts and other personal details.

After a hacker accessed George W. Bush's personal emails, the world saw Bush's self - portraits for the first time.

Once into AWS the hackers accessed a large cache of hosted driver and customer data and then blackmailed Uber with the threat to release this data.

Portland, OR: Uber is facing a data breach class action lawsuit filed by a resident of Portland who alleges the ride share company was negligent in its safeguarding of customer data, resulting in a data breach in October 2016, in which hackers accessed and stole data from 57 million Uber customers and drivers.

Once installed, malware can give hackers access to your system and / or destroy your data.

Because attacking one password can give hackers access to a whole host of your accounts.

The hope was by clicking on the button to print, Clinton would have activated a code giving hackers access to her entire hard drive.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D - VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment, today pressed Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the company's recent disclosure that hackers accessed the personal information of 57 million users last year.

In case anybody still believed we were doing ok on cybersecurity, Staples just announced that malware deployed at 115 of its stores nationwide gave hackers access to some 1.16 million customers» payment cards.

Some «Fortnite» players took to Reddit and the «Fortnite» forum to report that hackers accessed their accounts and made fraudulent charges.

Their users employ «a lot of plugins and open source code which can be exploited downstream to give hackers access to any Web properties running them,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

Having the sneakily installed malware (disguised as an app) on your smartphone or tablet could easily lead to the hacker accessing those system privileges to gain access to the same, remotely harvesting scanned fingerprint images from a number of devices without the user having the slightest clue.