Sentences with phrase «targets of hacks»

More law firms are themselves targets of hacks and data breaches.

But the REAL target of the hack wasn't a U.S. Central Command social media feed: it was the hearts and minds of potential Islamic State supporters around the world, making the attack a textbook piece of psychological warfare.

With such high trading volume, it is no surprise that the country's exchanges have been a target of hacking, regardless of if North Korea is the culprit.

Not exact matches

Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm, published an analysis Tuesday laying out evidence that North Korean hackers — the same group, known as Lazarus, blamed for the infamous hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014 — were systematically targeting and plundering South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges.

Most notably, there's Target, whose CEO, Gregg Steinhafel, was forced to step down last month following one of the biggest hack attacks ever logged.

«Most of the big hacks that you've read about, everything from the Sony hack to the Target hack, are bad guys getting users» credentials.»

If it was indeed a «state - sponsored actor,» potential culprits would include China, Russia, or North Korea, all of which have engaged in serious hacking and espionage directed at U.S. targets in the past.

There's been no shortage of high - profile hacks over the last few years — think Target, Sony and Ashley Madison — but one sector that hasn't made as much news for breaches is financial.

Two men pleaded guilty in New Jersey on Thursday to playing roles in a wide - ranging hacking and spamming scheme that targeted personal information of 60 million people including Comcast customers, prosecutors said.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a «massive» computer hack that dumped its campaign mails online 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose between the centrist and his far - right rival Marine Le Pen.

«Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations, the officials said,» CNN reported.

Considering the prevalence of hacking and use of malware to acquire sensitive and / or personal data from unknowing targets, investing in IT security isn't just a smart move — it's absolutely essential.

While Burnett said he believes the release of the passwords is ethical, he said he has concerns the release might make him the target of an FBI raid, citing the case of a former Anonymous activist who was sentenced to five years in prison for posting hacked data on the Internet.

While the Russian teenager is said to have written the code, IntelCrawler did not allege that the teen was involved in the actual hack of Target or Neiman Marcus.

This new system comes after several hacking attacks targeted the Gmail accounts of prominent individuals.

In other tweets, Pwn All The Things also pointed to a smoking gun to show a series of hacks targeting U.S. political figures was carried out by the same group, dispelling the suggestion that the DNC hacks could have been carried out by a 14 - year - old or any other single individual.

Home Depot could be the latest victim in a string of sophisticated payment system hacks targeting major retail chains.

Previous AP reporting found that all but one of the site's victims had been targeted by the hacking group before their emails were dumped online.

Whether Apple's famous iCloud was actually hacked or if this was a series of targeted attacks against specific accounts is somewhat interesting but inconsequential to most of us.

The fact that so many big companies like Target, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and insurance giant Anthem are being hacked proves that «Cyber security is one of the biggest problems in the world,» Teller said.

The statement is the closest Putin has come to acknowledging the view of US intelligence agencies that Russian hackers were behind the hacking campaigns targeting Democrats during last year's election.

Friday's dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.

«FireEye has recently uncovered 11 iOS apps within the Hacking Team's arsenals that utilize Masque Attacks, marking the first instance of targeted iOS malware being used against non-jailbroken iOS devices,» wrote FireEye senior research scientist engineer Zhaofeng Chen on the company's findings.

The U.S. and China diplomatic teams remain far apart on a host of issues including Chinese hacking that targets U.S. companies, China's buildup of islands in the South China Sea for military purpose, and the pressure American companies say they've faced in China over the past couple years.

Ciaran Martin, chief executive of Britain's National Cyber Security Center, said Russia had targeted «millions» of devices in both countries, often seeking to hack into individual homes or small businesses or to control their routers.

The hack into Ashley Madison's system follows attacks on the likes of Sony Pictures Entertainment and retailer Target that inflicted damage to companies as well as customers.

The panel of experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea said in its latest report in March that it «continues to be targeted by a sophisticated hacking campaign,» first noted in 2017.

They are the ones who are tasked with hacking into the most — supposedly — impenetrable targets, be it the computers of an Iranian nuclear power facility, or the cellphones of a fugitive terrorist.

In response, a member of Hacking Team said once the scout was installed on the victim machine, if using TBB the FBI would be able to snag the target's true IP address.

The release on websites this week of what appears to be top - secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets has caused deep concern inside American intelligence agencies, raising the question of whether America's own elite operatives have been hacked and their methods revealed.

Google's Advanced Protection Program can be extremely valuable if you're a high - profile hacking target who's willing to trade a ton of convenience for some extra peace of mind.

This announcement comes just days after the news that the agency's EDGAR filing system was the target of a 2016 hack.

Although these initiatives have reportedly been in the works for months, they were disclosed just days after the world learned that the SEC's EDGAR filing system was the target of a 2016 hack.

Tokyo - based Coincheck, which was the target of the biggest hack in January that resulted in the loss of $ 530 million worth of NEM, had handled all three digital currencies before the exchange was hacked.

This week, Monex Group completed its acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, which was the target of a $ 534 million hack in January.

Staminus Communications, a hosting provider that specializes in DDoS protection, was the target of a massive hack that exposed sensitive customer data, including credit card information.

McAffee security experts recently uncovered one of the biggest cyber attacks in history: an extensive hacking job that targeted 72 organizations, including the United Nations, multiple governments and the International Olympic Committee.

It is Tuesday so it is time for the weekly Arsenal bashing guff that is produced by the hack Adrian Durham and once again his target is Mesut Ozil, and the manager, team and club in general of course, with a side dish of dismissal and disrespect to us Gooners that are stupid enough to actually support our great club.

He apologised to workers at News of the World for having «panicked» in the face of the anger targeted at him, after it emerged teenage murder victim Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked.

According to sources familiar with the ongoing investigation, Mueller also has been probing whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign may have helped Assange or the Russians time or target the release of hacked emails and other social media promoting Trump or critical of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

It appears that Yates did not realise that he himself had been a target when he was responsible for the policing of the phone - hacking affair between July 2009 and January 2011.

If Andy Coulson had failed to notice any of this consistently illegal activity in his newsroom involving Rees, Whittamore, Boyall and Mulcaire; if none of the reporters who worked with these investigators and / or hacked the voicemail of their targets ever mentioned anything to him; if nobody told him there was police activity around his assistant editor, Greg Miskiw; if he failed to ask why the editorial budget had poured hundreds of thousands of pounds into these investigators; if he failed to read any of the news reports which linked his newspaper to Jonathan Rees» corruption or to Whittamore and Boyall's network of blaggers: finally, in the late summer of 2006, the reality caught his eye.

Several prominent Democrats and their assistants (most notably James Podesta) were the subject of hacking, apparently targeted deliberately with spear phishing tactics.

At the time, the News of the World maintained phone - hacking was the work of one rogue reporter, but civil court cases - by celebrities who believed their phone had been targeted - have brought evidence to light of a more widespread practice.

Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police to expand their phone - hacking inquiry to include a notorious private investigator who was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of targeting politicians, members of the royal family and high - level terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's News International.

Earlier in the week, a video from the hacking collective known as Anonymous was released that purports to name both the arsenal and Fort Drum as being on an ISIS list of U.S. military targets.

The document suggests that the hacking of the two actors was part of a wider scheme, hatched early in 2005, when Mulcaire agreed to use» electronic intelligence and eavesdropping» to supply the paper with daily transcripts of the messages of a list of named targets from the worlds of politics, royalty and entertainment.

Libicki said the demand for cybersecurity professionals began to overtake supply in 2007, largely due to increased reports of large - scale hacking, including the leakage of credit card data, attacks on Internet connectivity, and the discovery of «advanced persistence threats» — teams of hackers who go after intellectual property by establishing a persistent presence in the networks of U.S. and other technology targets.

So it went with a 2013 hack of Target stores across the country.

While the leg press focuses on the quads, as a result of bending your knees further, hack squats target the lower quads.