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Jerry Irvine, chief information officer of Prescient Solutions and a member of the National Cyber Security Task Force, warns that lost or stolen chip cards are still vulnerable to hacker attacks because they often don't require users to enter PINs.

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Frank McKenna, deputy chairman at TD, said protecting online data is «mission critical» for the bank because they are under constant attacks from hackers.

In a denial - of - service attack, hackers basically overload an online service with Internet traffic, thus causing the service to become inaccessible because it can't keep up.

The attack on Sony Pictures is regarded to be the most destructive against a company on U.S. soil because the hackers not only stole huge quantities of data, but also wiped hard drives and brought down much of the studio's network for more than a week.

Because there is no central server to hack or attack, hackers can not just take over a single computer and make a change.

Three U.S. intelligence officials, who declined to be identified by name, said they believed the attack was state - sponsored because of its resemblance to previous hacks traced to Russian intelligence agencies or hackers acting at their direction.

Because Parity spotted the attack in time, a group named «The White Hat Group» used the same vulnerability to drain the rest of Ether stored in other Parity wallets that have not yet been stolen by the hacker.

If something breaks because of a plugin update or if a hacker attacks the site a professional website person would need to be called in.

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.

1) VTech's hacker obtained access to VTech's systems via SQL injection attacks that were not caught because the company did not engage in regular vulnerability testing, therefore failing to catch the attack.

I personally find this position highly unsettling and would expect that clients would wish (and expect) to know of these attacks, if only to take further steps to protect their highly confidential information and because any hacker that had the technological ability to access the file system to encrypt it in the first place would surely be able to access the content of files.

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

Disabling it after enabling WPA2 with a strong password might deter the most casual of hackers from attacking your network, but that can have a negative impact on a large network's performance because it increases the amount of background traffic traveling over the network.

Ashley Shen, an independent security researcher, said: «We assume one of the reasons why Bitcoin is being attacked is because the price keeps increasing and we think it's reasonable for hackers (to target).

Because of this fact, Long — who also took into consideration January's flu outbreak and a snowstorm that had hit Indiana the day of the attack — made the executive decision to buy the decryption keys from the hackers.

Security: Because of the nature of the cryptocurrency market, Dash exchanges run a serious risk of hacker attacks.

Barterk added that bitFlyer had also stepped up its security without divulging any important details, presumably because that would be a valuable attack vector for most hackers.

Hardware wallets are the safest option to keep your digital assets because as the assets are stored in «cold storage» and hence, it is free from malware or hacker attack.

The real problem with desktop wallets and mobile wallets are the dangers associated with virus attacks, because a hacker can easily put Trojans in your system to phish for your details.

Kraken is unique and quite hyped too, probably because it is never been attacked by hackers.

The attack happened because of an exploit found in the splitting function, and even though the hacker could have continued to drain The DAO, he stopped for unknown reasons.

The sudden drop of bitcoin mining difficulty from 213.5 to 201.9 billion happened on 2 August and went almost unnoticed because on the same day Bitfinex, the third most popular cryptocurrency exchange, suspended its services after a hacker attack.

Security: Because of the nature of the industry crypto - exchanges run a serious risk of hacker's attacks.

Using an old version of a device's firmware makes it easier for hackers to attack because the firmware is vulnerable and not running at its full potential.