Sentences with phrase «someone hijacks»

«I thought it was going to start with nonprofits» using the platform to fundraise, Beshara says, but the friends he invited to test it out had other ideas: «They hijacked it to use for a fantasy football league, for a friend's birthday, for a party bus.»

Cranston and Dearden had one interesting meeting: they first met on the CBS series Airwolf in 1986, when Cranston played a man who hijacked a sorority reunion cruise and Dearden played one of the sisters who was trapped.

The hackers behind the malware appear to have been selling the hijacked computing power on the mining platform NiceHash, according to Palo Alto Networks.

Not only does thinking about what you're going to say next take your attention away from the speaker, hijacking the conversation shows that you think you have something more important to say.

In fact, by one recent estimate, about 36 % of all the traffic on the web is fake — «the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit sites.»

WhatsApp said: «Our website was hijacked for a small period of time, during which attackers redirected our website to another IP address.

And some employees may inadvertently serve as ignorant patsies, their identities and access hijacked through a malware attack or phishing expedition.

This has led to a phenomenon known as cryptojacking, where people's computers are hijacked to contribute to the attacker's cryptocurrency mining operation, without their knowledge.

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

Meanwhile, the phenomenon of crypto - jacking — in which hackers hijack your computer to mine digital currency — has quickly morphed from a novelty to a big league threat.

Official websites across many countries, including the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, were unwittingly drawn into a cryptocurrency - mining scheme that quietly hijacked the computers of people who visited those sites.

IRA forces hijacked a helicopter and landed it in the exercise yard of the one of the jail's wings.

Two men who had chartered a helicopter from San Juan, Puerto Rico to the city of Ponce hijacked the helicopter near the Las Cucharas prison and forced the pilot to land on a roof inside the complex.

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

Within 15 minutes localized cramps will begin.Black widow venom hijacks the victim's nervous system.

When you are emotionally «hijacked», or in a particularly emotional state, there are serious disturbances in the way you process information and the way you retain it.

I worry about the guy that wants to hijack all the planes.»

... I don't worry about a guy that wants to hijack a plane.

The mental impact is what Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence has labeled the «amygdala hijack» — precipitating anger, brooding, withdrawal or other automatic, impulsive responses.

In the 2007 escape, four armed men hijacked a helicopter and landed it on the roof of the Grasse Prison.

In a particularly daring escape, two gunmen hijacked a Red Cross helicopter and forced the pilot to fly towards Rebibbia Prison.

It's also how they believe the hackers infiltrated the White House systems — this time, under the guise of a hijacked State Department email account, CNN said.

The fast food mammoth yanked the #McDstories campaign only two hours after launching it, but a quick search on Twitter shows that the hijacked hashtag still goes on strong.

These vulnerabilities could allow the robots to be turned into surveillance devices, surreptitiously spying on their owners, or let them to be hijacked and used to physically harm people or damage property, the researchers wrote in a report released Tuesday.

For him, others attempting to hijack his brand is a battle that he says he deals with every day, one he used to fight alone before he knew better.

Anti-government protestors are back in action — occupying government compounds, crippling business, hijacking media, and generally wreaking havoc — in an effort to bring down another government.

When we are patient, we give ourselves time to choose how to respond to a given event, rather than get emotionally hijacked by our emotions.

Lesson: You can't control what consumers will say using your hashtag, and they can be hijacked by negative comments that can never be taken back.

Over the years, security researchers have found ways to hack into car computers, ranging from accessing maintenance ports to hijacking signals from wireless tire - pressure gauges.

A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send information out of an office through sound waves.

• The NSA shared intelligence that helped the Dutch navy capture a ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia, and the Netherlands regularly shares information with the NSA regarding Somalia and Afghanistan.

Yet the controlling nature of webinars is their fatal flaw: Webinars hijack 30 - 60 minutes of your life you'll never get back.

First up is the fact that it can only handle one output at a time, which means that if you access the Slingbox remotely while someone is watching TV at home, you'll hijack the feed from them.

The impact of exploiting these vulnerabilities includes decryption, packet replay, TCP connection hijacking, HTTP content injection, and others.

When you do this, you will prevent the emergencies — perceived or otherwise — from hijacking your entire day of productivity.

From stolen financial information to compromised customer records to hijacked intellectual property, the potential cyber threats that can drive SMBs to bankruptcy are endless.

These nay - sayers believe that smartphones and social networks are hijacking people's minds.

In March 2013, two inmates were lifted on a hijacked helicopter from a prison north of Montreal.

«Two masked men armed with tear gas and knives relieved a delivery truck of its 6,000 copies of the game [on Nov. 6] in a hijacking that took place just south of Paris....

But what's happened in the kind of post-Soviet era is that it's been hijacked by a group of basically KGB people, who have captured the state and run it for their own purposes.

(Avoid hijacking it at all costs.)

In a similar vein, don't hijack a current event in an effort to generate some attention in the present.

In an era when information and entertainment sources are unlimited, hijacking attention spans with something as mundane as an ad isn't going to happen.

With hijackings and bombings dominating the headlines, here are some security tips every traveler should know.

«Our Twitter account was hijacked overnight for about two hours during which a series of offensive tweets was posted to the account,» Chipotle's communications director Chris Arnold told the outlet.

As hack attacks abound, including Chipotle's F - bomb - laden Twitter hijacking and Newsweek's infiltration by the Cyber Caliphate, Google is now rewarding users who commit to a fortified Web.

As a scholar of the life and teachings of Jesus, I am frustrated when I hear some «Christian» politicians hijack and, in fact, mutilate his teachings.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

The social media company has been surrounded by negative news for much of the last 18 months, since news broke that Russian - linked groups allegedly hijacked its service to spread propaganda to try to influence the 2016 election.

Hackers hijacked the popular burrito chain's Twitter account early yesterday and ripped into an F - bomb - laden tweetstorm tear — even calling President Obama the N - word.