Network intrusions, denial of service,
hacker attacks happen at inopportune times... late at night, weekends.
Not exact matches
In today's technology - driven world, cyber
attacks and data breaches by
hackers happen on a daily basis — and businesses here in the Red Deer are no exception.
This incident which
happened in February did not just send Under Armour into the growing list of «corporate victims of
hacker attacks,» but plunged its athletic apparel maker shares by 4.6 % in after - hours trade.
Like the Binance phishing
attack that
happened earlier this year, the
hackers used «punycode» techniques to create the fake internet addresses.
This also
happened last week when Mt. Gox when Bitcoin reached $ 142 and
hackers attacked the exchange.
As the
attack progressed, a group of white hat
hackers (ethical programmers who look for security holes in software) caught on to what was
happening.
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.
Most people don't update their web browsers or plugins unless it
happens automatically, leaving themselves open to
attack by
hackers.
What
happens to our profile content, when it's
attacked by
hackers, or LinkedIn shuts it down?