Sentences with phrase «own nefarious»

If consumers become fearful of their data being accessed by nefarious players, it could mute the adoption and use of these tools.

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.

Now, I can't pretend to know whether they're using this data for nefarious reasons (I can almost bet they are), but we do know that they use this data to understand whether users are having a positive user experience on a website.

Then there are of course those interested in the gold mine of health data for more nefarious reasons like fraud.

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.

Norton is one company trying to preempt nefarious attacks on smart home devices.

Gordon has also denied that Trump or Manafort were involved in the language change and that there was anything nefarious about it.

The increase in US heroin consumption, and the partnerships Guzmán in particular has made in order to supply it, have earned the fugitive Sinaloa kingpin a nefarious distinction.

Last year, the U.S. government saw fit to introduce new rules for preventing nefarious attacks on pacemakers.

On the one hand, some species of bacteria are responsible for some of the most nefarious of human diseases.

Each screenshot is a site, and the content ranges from the nefarious to the noble.

«What we do know is that the total number of Russian troops on Belarusian territory is not expected to exceed 3,000 personnel,» Gorenburg wrote, and «the likelihood of this exercise serving as cover for some larger nefarious aim, whether it is an attack on Ukraine or Lithuania or a stealth occupation of Belarus, is practically zero.»

«Well, I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in,» one of Trump's lawyers, Jay Sekulow, said on ABC's «This Week.»

Similar to recent research showing that fake news spreads faster than facts on Twitter, these findings about YouTube's algorithm can't be blamed on any nefarious plot to destabilize the world.

While Apple doesn't release malware figures, Sherry points to 2012 reports that a handful of products that had made it through the App Store approval process turned out to be carrying nefarious software.

He added that Pegasus is notable because most of the big security scares involving mobile have until now been theoretical — whenever someone has discovered a major vulnerability, there typically is little evidence the exploit was widely used for nefarious purposes.

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

They're still getting to the bottom of how nefarious that is, but the guy's got skeletons.»

So, remember, there are plenty of people out there who will try to use emotional influence for nefarious purposes.

The fact that the comments are identical isn't a sign of nefarious activity in and of itself, but the lack of a clear source for the message, the alphabetically - organized filings, the reported denials of those who are listed as commenters, and the sheer volume of comments listed in such a short time frame, raise questions about their legitimacy.

«I wonder why the Secret Service — if this was nefarious — why the Secret Service allowed these people in?»

There's nothing nefarious there.

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.

While AI may not necessarily be as nefarious as the intelligent computer system Skynet from the popular Terminator film franchise, the use and potential of AI has come a long way and opened a multitude of possibilities.

Set in a ramshackle, hilly village run by a group of white - hatted snobs more devoted to cheese - tasting than serving the community, «The Boxtrolls» is a 3D romp about the collision between the village and the subterranean - dwelling Boxtrolls, who scavenge for trash but have been targeted for extermination by a nefarious baddie named Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley).

There's nothing nefarious about it.

He turns to metaphor to support his point: «A knife can be used for good things — I'm using it to eat my breakfast — but it can be also used for potentially nefarious activities.

There were concerns at the time that Sun News was some kind of nefarious attempt by Péladeau to push Canadian political opinion farther to the right, especially because of Teneycke's involvement, which earned the channel the nickname Fox News North.

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

(But context is important; oxytocin plays a bewildering number of roles in animals, and possibly some nefarious ones in humans.)

Just how much these nefarious businesses are making is tough to peg.

On the chance that someone nefarious does get into your Facebook account, they could do a lot of damage, including deleting everything that was posted.

«There was nothing nefarious about this arrangement, and Defendants» attempt to construe this into «criminal activity» or «fraud» is pure spin,» the brief states.

But because employees own these devices outright, they feel free to use them however they wish — activities that may include downloading potentially nefarious applications from third - party storefronts or jailbreaking their phones.

While I'm not sure your motives need to be that nefarious, the point stands: To really effect change, first gather your power base.

This kerfuffle shows that technology doesn't hold to any inherent moral or ethical value: The same algorithms used for legitimate purposes can be turned to more nefarious goals.

Social media's exploitation of the social environment is «particularly nefarious because social media companies influence how people think and behave without them even being aware of it.»

A senior GOP strategist who worked on the RNC's digital operations last year denied that anything nefarious had occurred, calling Deep Root «the best in the business» and arguing that, if anything, the exposure showed how far the party had come in developing a sophisticated operation that far surpassed that of Democrats.

Pencils have been used for many a nefarious deed, ought we to ban pencils?

How does this dovetail with the overall western effort to characterize Iran as behind every nefarious act, even the ludicrous - sounding plot announced months ago by the White House, in which the Iranians were purportedly trying to recruit Mexican drug gangs to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US?

The authenticity of stolen documents are seldom questioned — even though they come from the most nefarious of sources.

There is a twist here I find bothersome; the origination of the «America First» slogan came from a nefarious crowd of isolationists in the 1930s, including an awful lot of Nazi sympathizers (though I won't tar all of them with that brush).

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.

He said the Cambridge Analytica situation underscored how Facebook can be used for nefarious reasons, saying it appeared «to be the result of people exploiting the tools you created to manipulate users» information.»

The only consistent position the left seems to take these days is that the mechanisms it uses to keep power automatically transform into something nefarious and undemocratic when the opposition uses them.

Most of the senators seemed to remain receptive to the potential of Bitcoin and virtual currencies save one or two who attempted to associate virtual currencies with more nefarious activities.

CHARITY SCHEMES: Federal authorities have issued warnings that scammers with nefarious intentions are actively exploiting the generosity of those wishing to provide relief to the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

«Whichever company has the highest rate of innovation — unless that company is actively killed by its competitors in some way that's nefarious, or shoots itself in the foot — it will at some point exceed those competitors.»

While market volatility is pretty typical in the cryptocurrency world, the massive uptick in volume and market - wide fluctuations lead one to wonder if there was is something more nefarious at play.

How about we tax the banksters and their nefarious flash crash computer trading and give this money to the states for infrastructure projects and schools and cops and firefighters?