Sentences with phrase «sophisticated hacker attack»

Think — this was a very concerted and sophisticated hacker attack.

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«We now know that Russian intelligence officers and state - sponsored hackers were responsible for highly complex and sophisticated attacks on Yahoos systems,» Mayer said.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

If Petya is found to have originated from hackers with links to Russia, however, «we can expect that this attack will be much more far - reaching and sophisticated.»

According to Mr. Frind, a hacker from Argentina named Chris Russo co-ordinated a sophisticated two day attack on Plenty of Fish's servers in an attempt to gain access to user data and extort the site's owners.

What may have made this attack sophisticated is that the hackers used «an automated system rapidly gathered massive amounts of data and within a minutes distributed all the information to thousands of accounts on the Internet.»

«We now know that Russian intelligence officers and state - sponsored hackers were responsible for highly complex and sophisticated attacks on Yahoo's systems.»

Intrepid hackers on Wednesday initiated a highly sophisticated Google Docs phishing attack that spread like wildfire.

Remember when news broke out that a certain retail or hotel chain was hit by a sophisticated malware attack that allowed hackers to steal personal information belonging to a large number of customers, including payment information?

Adobe called the security breach a «sophisticated attack» that allowed hackers to obtain encrypted passwords and customers» personal information, as well as take source code of several Adobe products.