Sentences with phrase «malicious website visits»

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To get hacked, people would have to be using their smartphones or personal computers on the same Wi - Fi network to which their Smart TVs are connected, and then visit a malicious website or download an app that contains software code that would let hackers take over, the report said.

When Apple users visit the website via their Safari browser, often by clicking on a link in a bogus email, they inadvertently load malicious code onto their computers.

Hackers can use malware that redirects customers to malicious websites when they visit yours.

Users visiting the websites of the New York Times, Newsweek, BBC and AOL, among others, may have installed malware on their computers if they clicked on the malicious ads.

Furthermore, most voice assistants respond audibly to commands, and most devices ask the user to unlock them to visit a website, so it's unlikely a malicious hacker could do much harm before the device's legitimate owner noticed.

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Windows users running vulnerable versions of Internet Explorer are at risk when visiting compromised websites containing malicious code to exploit this vulnerability.

Note that not even changing your PACER password would have protected you, because the vulnerability occurs when you visit the malicious website while also logged into PACER.

This could happen very easily — when you use an outdated web browser app on the fridge and visit a compromised or malicious website, it could infect your fridge.

The hacker then connects to the same server gateway as the victim, activates port forwarding and waits until the victim visits a malicious website address — where their true IP can be scraped.

Unlike what SmartScreen does when you visit malicious websites, you can not continue with the download when a file is blocked and you can not report it as being safe.

For example, if you're using an out - of - date version of Adobe Flash — or, god forbid, Java, which was the cause of 91 % of attacks in 2013 according to Cisco — you could visit a malicious website and that website would exploit the vulnerability in your software to gain access to your computer.

It could be a user clicking on a bad link, visiting a malicious website, not paying attention during installation, opening infected attachments and so on.

That's the core bit of malvertising — it takes advantage of flaws in software you're using to infect you on «legitimate» websites, eliminating the need to trick you into visiting a malicious website.

The flaw in the built - in QR code reader can be exploited to trick people into visiting malicious websites that are initially disguised as innocent.

Rather than attempting to trick you into visiting a malicious website, malvertising uses advertising networks to spread these malicious Flash objects and other bits of malicious code to other websites.

This might manifest itself as a web page that tells you you've been infected, with an accompanying phone number to call or malicious website to visit, or it might even show up as an ostensibly helpful Mac app you don't remember installing.

A security researcher has publicised a flaw in the latest version of iOS that could fool iPhone users into visiting a malicious website...

«Protect» features a blue icon with a shield, and when you tap on it, it links to the Onavo VPN app in the iOS App Store.As TechCrunch points out, while Onavo offers to «keep your data safe while you browse» and let you know when you «visit potentially malicious or harmful websites,» Facebook's real aim with Onavo is tracking user activity across multiple different apps to learn insights about how its customer base

If a user visited a malicious website it could trigger remote code execution.

Ravi Borgaonkar, a security researcher at Technical University Berlin, has found that a simple USSD code that can be downloaded just by visiting a malicious website can trigger a full factory reset of several Samsung smartphones, thus wiping out all personal data and information from the device.

Hackers could exploit the flaw by tricking Facebook Messenger users to visit a malicious website, thus gaining access to their private messages - both sent and received.

A security researcher has publicised a flaw in the latest version of iOS that could fool iPhone users into visiting a malicious website rather than a safe one.

Acrylic installs a custom HOSTS file to your computer when you install the program thus blocking you from visiting malicious websites.

This vulnerability can then trick device users into visiting a malicious website to complete the hack.

Whenever victim visit any malicious website [like TORRENT, PornHub] then its activate JavaScript for mining cryptocurrency, which silently uses victims system power because of it system get heated soon.

«Because of these security vulnerabilities, consumers» browsers could not warn users when they visited potentially spoofed or malicious websites with invalid digital certificates.

Most ransomware infects a computer or mobile device in «Trojan horse» fashion — infection is secretly triggered when you open an unexpected email attachment, visit a malicious website or install infected software downloaded from the Internet.