Sentences with phrase «of hackers accessing»

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

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As with any data - hungry application, voice assistants are constantly creating new packets of information — highly personal in some cases — that could be accessed or exploited by authorities or hackers.

It's an increasingly common form of extortion: hackers gain access to your data, encrypt it, and demand ransom for the key.

The most cunning of hackers, once they have the proverbial foot in the door, can find creative ways to gain even greater access to company data.

Neither of these is a good idea, as once again it makes the hacker's job much easier in every respect, and once they figure out your single, insecure password, they potentially have access to all of your accounts.

Watch Out for Evil Twins Be aware of the methods a company or vendor uses to communicate with you, because hackers sometimes gain access to computers, data and accounts by posing as legitimate companies or agencies.

It is simple to use the same password for all of your accounts, but this practice also helps hackers to easily access these passwords.

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.

«We've not really had access to this in the end user and open source hacker community, and it changes a lot of assumption about how we write software,» says Adrian Cockcroft, a technology fellow at Battery Ventures.

Though the White House has downplayed the severity of its breach since the fall, CNN noted that the hackers would have gained access to President Barack Obama's private itinerary — an undeniably irresistible target for foreign spies.

For example, an APT could be a hacker who's determined to get the credit card and personal identity information of all your customers or gain access to your social media networks.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users» private data.

Hackers attacked the school's computer systems in January, gaining access to personal information of current and former students as well as staff and faculty members.

Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.

From mid-May through July, an as yet unidentified hacker group gained access to a large swathe of this data — including names, birthdates, street addresses, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers — the company disclosed last month.

Hackers were initially able to introduce malware into the plant because of flaws in its security procedures that allowed access to some of its stations, as well as its safety control network.

«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.

By limiting access points to your accounts and consolidating into one platform, you'll limit the number of opportunities for hackers to compromise your data.

The data breaches, which involved hackers gaining access to data for hundreds of millions of Yahoo users, took place in 2013 and 2014.

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

The year since hackers broke into Target and accessed millions of credit and debit card numbers has been a brutal one for cyberattacks.

The hacker continued on a policy soapbox, haranguing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for advocating that tech companies grant law enforcement «backdoor» access to their products.

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

Hackers looking to gain access to your work and personal accounts can use powerful software to crack encrypted passwords by guessing millions of variations per second.

In order to make the program work with a wide range of Web technologies, Microsoft had made it easy for website developers to get access to the guts of the program while it ran on a user's machine — which meant the IE user's software could also be exploited by hackers, spammers, and other unscrupulous Web bottom feeders.

In September, Equifax reported a massive data breach, saying hackers may have accessed the personal details, including names and Social Security numbers, of more than 143 million consumers from mid-May to July.

A hacker who once advertised having access to user account information for websites like Facebook and Twitter has been linked through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials, the FBI said in court documents.

«Hackers have gotten very sophisticated, and preventing breaches entirely is impossible,» says Nat Kausik, CEO of Bitglass, a leader in cloud access security.

But according to the NSA report, evidence that the hackers were also stealing the login credentials of people with administrative access to the voter - registration systems raises concerns that the Russians were able to do «anything they wanted» — including, Bardin said, breaching voting machines.

In September, Deloitte, one of the world's largest accounting firms, reported that hackers breached the company's email, accessing sensitive information on 350 clients, including the U.S. government, banks, and other corporations.

After gaining access to the DNC's system in 2016, Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear disseminated thousands of emails via hacker Guccifer 2.0, who leaked the information to WikiLeaks.

Ransomware is basically a form of malware that lets hackers block people from accessing their computer or related computer networks so that a hacker can demand payment in return for access.

The hacker was able to use a physician - operated website that was no longer in use and left unsecured in order to access the records, which included information such as names, the last four digits of credit card numbers, phone numbers, birth dates, and both physical and digital addresses.

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.

On October 21st, hackers used lower - end internet connected devices to stifle access to the net with a series of mass DDoS attacks, affecting tens of millions of Americans.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high - tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

The hacker would have had to gain access to the private files of the CEO or the VP of Finance to obtain this material — a job requiring as much time to implement as a hack of the centralised database.

If the goal of Facebook's security team was to keep a hacker from accessing the accounts of executives and therefore all of their messages, they could have merely been deleted on their side the way any Facebook user is free to do, without them disappearing from the various recipients» inboxes.

Canada was also called a prime target for cybercrime, state - sponsored attacks and lone hackers, said the final draft version of the April 2016 report, which was obtained by The Canadian Press via the Access to Information Act.

In addition, the hacker also appears to have compromised the account of a Slack admin and used this access to send messages to users via the company's official Slack channel, urging users to visit the compromised site and buy tokens in the ongoing pre-sale event.

This keeps passwords in a secure location that hackers can not access instead of the usual sticky notes or excel files many people use.

With multisignature, a hacker would have to hack all of your devices at once, AND would need access to them all at the same time, AND you'd be notified of any pending transactions so you can reject them before they are broadcast and lost.

After getting access to several accounts, instead of using the login credentials to empty out wallets, hackers created «trading API keys» for each account.

Hackers were able to access the user data on an Amazon Web Services account and managed to scrape names and email addresses for millions of users.

Pacific Crest starts coverage of Cyberark Software Ltd (NASDAQ: CYBR) with a Sector Weight rating as valuation keeps the brokerage at sidelines, despite the company's «promising opportunity» in privileged access management space, which is the basis of exploitation by today's hackers.

But in the case of 600,000 drivers, the hackers could access driver's license numbers.

A hacker group called The Impact Team accessed the website's user database, including financial and proprietary information of 37 million users.

Equifax, a provider of consumer - credit scores, said on Sept. 7 that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and late July, in what could be one of the most significant data breaches ever in the United States.

The down - is - up world of the Trump administration grew even battier Monday amid reports that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scaling back its investigation into credit agency Equifax, which allowed hackers to access the personal information...

Chinese hackers have established a reputation for low - tech «phishing,» the sending of disguised emails to get a company's employees or a government's bureaucrats to allow the attackers access to their computer networks.