Sentences with phrase «hacker access to sensitive information»

It addresses the Spectre Variant 2 flaw in these CPUs, which could give hackers access to sensitive information if they have direct contact with the device.

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Malware interferes with your computer's normal operation and gives hackers a chance to gain access to your computer and collect sensitive personal information, such as the sites you visit, the e-mail you send, and the financial records you keep.

While you may think your own site isn't in the crosshairs of hackers, they're increasingly targeting small - business sites, infecting visitors with malware or cracking databases to access sensitive customer information.

These vulnerabilities could make it possible for a hacker to access sensitive information, like photos or passwords, from almost every PC, phone, and tablet.

«Once in, the hackers had full access to client emails, passwords, and all manner of sensitive information,» says Sanjeev Verma, founder and chairman of encryption services vendor PreVeil.

The hack was part of a broader attempt by Iranian hackers to infiltrate corporate networks and access sensitive information, according to the report.

The rise of the Internet and storing personal information online have made it easier for hackers to access your sensitive information.

The regulation is in response to the recent Equifax data breach, in which hackers gained access to sensitive personal information of an estimated 143 million American consumers, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

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 IRS had shut down the Data Retrieval Tool back in March after learning that the tool was being used by hackers and criminals to access the sensitive personal and financial information of student loan borrowers in the U.S.

The broker also uses SSL security technology to ensure that hackers can not access any sensitive information on eToro's servers.

The hacker was thus able to gain initial access to a test environment and a local administrator account and later move between environments to gain access to sensitive information of customers (and their children) on a global basis.

It has been revealed that Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, has suffered a data breach where hackers had access to names, email addresses, social security numbers, driver's license numbers and other sensitive information concerning 143 million of its customers.

Regardless of how sensitive or how much personally identifiable information your business holds, you're at risk of a hacker gaining access to information you don't want leaked.

They could allow hackers to access the chip kernel, the area that is supposed to protect the most sensitive information like passwords and encryption keys.

Apple faces its first legal action over Meltdown and Spectre in the United States, even though the vulnerabilities were found to affect nearly all computers and other devices, according to court documents reviewed by MacRumors.Meltdown and Spectre are serious hardware - based vulnerabilities that take advantage of the speculative execution mechanism of a CPU, allowing hackers to gain access to sensitive information.

With increasing frequency, we're seeing large privacy violations — when hackers get access to people's online data or companies misuse it or fail to protect it — and we all realize how vulnerable we are to identity theft, the publication of sensitive information, and stolen credit card numbers.

If you make purchases or do your banking online, hackers also can gain access to financially sensitive information that can cost you thousands of dollars.