Sentences with phrase «system hostage»

«Americans are frustrated with our congressional representation, and holding the world's best air travel system hostage magnifies just how inept and ineffective Washington has become.»

«Holding the public - school system hostage for charter - school expansion isn't right,» said Kallos, who represents the Upper East Side.

Nobody holds all the information about every user, nobody can hold the system hostage.

The cybersecurity firm FireEye told The Financial Times that rather than encrypting files, Petya holds the entire system hostage until a ransom has been paid.

Especially cruel hackers know that lives are on the line when they hold a hospital's computer systems hostage, as they did in the May 12 attack dubbed WannaCry, which locked down many overseas hospitals with the demand for a ransom.

Not exact matches

For example, independent research conducted in 2014 estimates that a file - encrypting ransomware called CryptoWall, infected over 6,00,000 computer systems in just six months, held over 5 billion files hostage — earning its creators more $ 1 million.

Looking back I feel I was held hostage in our (American) school system until I was sixteen years old.

For more than 10 minutes, the Ugly Eagles, as they are affectionately known, were held hostage as technical problems prevented their entrance song from playing over the public address system.

Fulbright — the father of the woman who would become your wife — congratulated Hutchins for his «courageous defense of the university and its true function» and for standing up to the «worst excrescences of our educational system» by doing away with a sport that had undermined Chicago's academic reputation and made it hostage to those with no regard for the rules.

«It makes complete sense to not hold education funding hostage to an evaluation system that has yet to be worked out,» Stewart Cousins said.

«Governor Cuomo is holding millions of transit riders hostage in his dispute with the Mayor, even after he acknowledged that the subway system is in a state of emergency and promised to fix it,» said Executive Director of the Riders Alliance, Joel Raskin before suggesting that the two politicians use their respective powers to fill the funding gap.

Tea Party Republicans may have decided hold hostage the functioning of government and the full faith and credit of the United States of America for now, but the fact that the uninsured WANT the new system means that this fight is essentially their last.

«Students in New York schools should not be held hostage by legislators kowtowing to the special interests that have created our broken education system,» said Tenicka Boyd, the group's Director of Organizing.

«Funding for New York State schools should not be held hostage due to the ongoing debate over how best to reform our education system.

The judge presiding over the two guards» brutality trial complained that the judicial system had been «held hostage.»

«We were able to simulate a hacker who had gained access to this part of the system and is holding it hostage by threatening to dump large amounts of chlorine into the water unless the operator pays a ransom,» Formby said.

«That could allow attackers to hold hostage critical systems such as water treatment plants and manufacturing facilities.

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She is held hostage and chained up, but during a particularly heated confrontation with one of her captors, she takes a blow to the stomach causing the parcel of drugs to leak into her system.

The robbers have the advantage of hostages and weapons, as per usual, but they also possess the advantage of shelter — a house that, by way of its elaborate security system, can alert them if Shaun gets within 15 feet of the exterior walls or, somehow, finds her way inside.

One could argue the tonal disconnect between an act of terrorism and comedy, and yet the injection of some quips and the odd running joke about a producer obsessed with balls turns out to be one of the film's greatest weapons, moreso than the overly familiar stench of disdain and dissidence as a poorly planned hostage stunt yields a much more complex discussion about class structure and the corruption of the American financial system.

Potential disaster scenarios at hospitals range from floods to hostage situations, bomb threats to earthquakes, HVAC (air filtration system) failures to tornados.

That kids should be held hostage to a system that continues to fail too many - not all - kids.

«Each year, more and more education funding is held hostage by our broken pension system, so I'm glad to see a group of legislators is willing to do the hard work now to ensure school funding gets where it's intended,» Hohman said.

DDoS attacks are regularly launched on school systems to expose student records and hold information hostage.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, all stems from Google's purchase of the Android operating system, meaning that it holds consumers hostage if they wish to have any alternative to iOS.

Across 12 missions, you must rescue hostages, defuse bombs and hack computer systems — all while battling the terrorist threat.

It's like they're being held hostage by their billing and timekeeping system.

[13] The whole exercise may be summed up by saying that neither the Canadian tax system nor, indeed, the Canadian economy, ought to be held hostage to a type - setter's selection, at any given time, of what is considered a pleasing and useful type - face for a dollar sign.

But even some supporters of ISDS now worry that the system has been misused to help the powerful evade justice and to hold hostage the economy of a nation still in turmoil.

My entire system is being held hostage at this point.

Once it gains a foothold on a victim's system — typically a Windows PC — ransomware encrypts a user's data, holding it hostage until a ransom is paid in return for the decryption key.

To date, we have borne the economic costs and burdens of a patent system increasingly held hostage by trolls that do not seek to build up the American economy, but rather tear it down, one demand letter and exorbitant licensing fee at a time.

The days of finding creative ways to hold patients hostage to a particular health care system soon will be over.

As reports emerge, today's attack paints a picture of businesses and governments around the world held hostage by a second major wave of ransomware, a kind of software that hijacks computerized systems and demands payment, often in bitcoin, to unlock them.

In May, a ransomware called WannaCry shocked the world by holding Microsoft computers hostage using an operating system exploit, encrypting the files on infected computers and demanding a $ 300 payment in bitcoin for their release.

The city's computer systems were taken offline on Thursday following a ransomware infection that encrypted data, holding it hostage whil...

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I will note «Children Held Hostage: Dealing with Programmed And Brainwashed Children» ISBN 0 -89707-628-1 is an exhaustive Psychological study driven by judges and the ABA that covers at minimum 1000 families over 12 years that has been putting forth the truth since 1991 # 26 years ago and it is yet to be accepted and embraced fully by the system.