Sentences with phrase «other nefarious»

For example, they could use blockchain audits to track crime and other nefarious activity on the blockchain.

Another source of concern about smart speakers and digital assistants are hidden vulnerabilities within them; as these devices are intended to be connected up to everything from your lights to your doors, users are concerned that hackers could cause physical damage or hack the devices for other nefarious purposes such as committing burglaries.

But by focusing on the mechanics of how apps work on its service, he said, Facebook is failing to take meaningful action to ensure it's not «weaponized» by scammers, manipulators and other nefarious types.

Particularly noteworthy, however, is the fact that Facebook is hunting through its network to see if another Cambridge Analytica scandal is about to unfold or if other nefarious interests have used holes in its Open Graph app model to take advantage of swathes of its 2.2 bn active users.

It's possible your system has been infected by a virus, spyware, or other nefarious entity — even if you have an antivirus program installed.

Are there likely other nefarious uses for this data?

But warmists have instead used group think, bandwagon arguments, and other nefarious techniques to prevent real criticism.

Public funding attracts, you know, people looking for public funding, via political connections and other nefarious means, where future funding is not determined by past results.

Major Mayhem is both the name of the game and of its star, a brawny, bravado filled army soldier who's going up against an army of ninjas who have, among other nefarious acts, kidnapped his girlfriend.

Use an ember and you can summon a friend to join your fight but beware, as this then allows other nefarious gamers to invade your world.

Dashin» Desperadoes — A competitive multiplayer game where you outrace your foe using dynamite and all sorts of other nefarious tricks.

The gist is that The Last of Us has a believable story that manages to avoid cliché moments and is filled with believable characters that see all their will tested by a grueling environment and other nefarious people.

But the mill owners, backed by other nefarious forces, claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe.

Should your car's audio system — or some other nefarious means — be used to boost the engine note in the cockpit?

And despite some efforts to dismiss success stories as anecdotal exceptions that are not replicable, or are somehow masking other nefarious practices, many educators and school leaders know better.

Standing in his way are Venom, the Green Goblin, Electro and other nefarious villains.

A riveting, frequently electrifying thriller, Point Blank follows male nurse Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) as he's blackmailed into helping a criminal (Roschdy Zem's Hugo Sartet) escape from police custody after thugs kidnap his pregnant wife (Elena Anaya's Nadia)- with the film subsequently detailing the various complications that ensue as crooked cops, deadly mobsters, and various other nefarious figures enter the picture.

But love knows no bounds, and aided by the wise and powerful Merlin — a wizard who has been turned into a roll of toilet paper — our duo must evade the all - consuming incinerator monster, the wily pig witch, and other nefarious adversaries in an attempt to be together.

His firm's scheme is based on a novel method for classifying malware, the programs hackers use to steal passwords, send spam and carry out other nefarious activities.

These exercises have notably gone a long way in curbing and addressing acts of criminality and other nefarious activities.

«Oversight of credit reporting agencies will help ensure that personal information is less vulnerable to cyberattacks and other nefarious acts in this rapidly changing digital world,» the governor continued.

«Oversight of credit reporting agencies will help ensure that personal information is less vulnerable to cyberattacks and other nefarious acts in this rapidly changing digital world,» he said.

If you are serious about your cryptocurrency investment, then you need to take security seriously because there are so many different scams, phishing websites, malware, hacking attempts and other nefarious means that people can try to take advantage of weak...

Still, Case defended Grindr's decision to share the data, arguing that Apptimize and Localytics are simply tools to help apps like Grindr function better, and that the information was not shared to make money or for other nefarious purposes.

European regulators have already had bitcoin in their sights for a long time, linking it to terror financing, drug trafficking, tax avoidance and other nefarious ventures.

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

Not exact matches

If those services get hacked, as was the case with Ashley Madison, or purchased by other companies, customer information ends up in the hands of different people and organizations — from the annoying to the downright nefarious,» Rodriguez reported in November.

Nefarious characters and the applications they create mine social media for purposes of social engineering, cyber attacks and to prey upon others to fulfill lusts for sexual perversions and other questionable pursuits like identity theft.

Malware includes computer viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, scareware, spyware, cryptocurrency miners, adware, and other programs intended to exploit computer resources for nefarious purposes.

These days, Wurldtech is building a presence in the medical space, developing security systems for Internet - enabled health devices such as wearable insulin pumps and other wireless devices that could be susceptible to what McDonnell calls «nefarious» forces.

Nonetheless, Schmitz is right to observe that Think Progress has stumbled upon nefarious identification with morays and other eels by the more extreme factions within the religious right.

How could he, grandson of the harem and its nefarious political influences, have regarded the plea of the peasants as other than an infringement of his sacred rights?

However, the juxtaposition between her apparent happiness and our expectations of traumatic stress and mourning in the wake of personal tragedy served as grist for conspiracy theorists who claim that she is a crisis actor and the murder was staged for some nefarious purpose or other.

It says «Verily, only you are right, the others are nincompoops, and if they mock you, it is even more proof you are right, and any evidence emerges that this is total bullshit, it is the nefarious deceptions of Bippy The Dark One Who Hath Recently Become The Darkest Dark One And Has A Pretty Slammin» Rave Party On Fridays DownOn The Bayou.»

I highly doubt Otherhand is an evangelical Christian (a term overused & stretched way beyond it's meaning to evangelize — proclaming the good news to the lost) when he / she says «has nothing to do with real Christianity and uses religion in it's most nefarious disguise — to shower contempt on others.»

His «Manhattan Declaration» has nothing to do with real Christianity and uses religion in it's most nefarious disguise — to shower contempt on others.

See how these Christians love one another, making lists and assigning labels to the nefarious «others.»

To be clear, other than the size of the loan — which is way out of the normal range for a typical Apollo loan — nothing on its face suggests anything nefarious... but at the very least, there are some ethical questions with Kushner using the White House as a place to have meetings with people that then turn around and invest in Kushner's private business ventures.

'' This development is frightening as it represents a new dimension to the nefarious business of impersonation of EFCC officers by fraudsters and other criminal gangs.

No matter your enrollment, there is no way you look at enrollment numbers and come to any conclusion other than Republicans hold onto the Senate only through nefarious math.

This can then be allowed for further nefarious purposes such as deploying ransomware — or selling on the access to other criminals or ever nation states,» he said.

Calling on traditional rulers, caretaker Chairmen and other citizens to heed the directive, the Police Commissioner maintained that clearing of the bushes would prevent criminals and hoodlums who usually use the road verges for their nefarious activities.

In reference to the relative upheavals that have characterized other regions in recent times, the group asked if the governors had not realized that the Fulani herdsmen were known with their nefarious activities in their region.

«Your excellency, we have it on good and sound authority, that in other for the Managing Director, Executive Director (Finance and Administration), and executive Director (Projects) to cover up their nefarious acts, they have also given some of the Ondo State projects to some security agencies

When the employee clicked on the link, the nefarious code downloaded to a computer, enabling the attackers to control it and hop to other machines in the company's U.S. network.

Maxwell suggested that a nefarious tiny being could shuttle around molecules to decrease entropy — for example, by putting all the fast - moving molecules on one side of a box containing a gas and the slower ones on the other side.

Scheufele says the rapid development of CRISPR has also fueled speculation about potential military or other more nefarious applications.

To me that looks a little nefarious, especially when they have logos on their website promoting grass fed beef and wild fish, among other things.

The young woman was advised by her doctor that in order to lose weight she should stop eating pasta (along with a laundry list of other supposedly nefarious products).

In the film, Lucy (Johansson, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is abducted by a gang of Asian baddies, led by the nefarious Mr. Jang (Min - sik, Oldboy), who aim to use her as one of their «mules» to smuggle their uber - potent drug called CPH4 to other territories around the world.