Sentences with phrase «to exploit the vulnerability»

... It's a social - validation feedback loop... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.

The goal is to encourage researchers to reveal bugs in the company's computing infrastructure and vehicles so it can patch problems and prevent hackers from exploiting those vulnerabilities.

The device with the weakest security could allow hackers to exploit vulnerabilities on our network and access our home.

These tool kits are planted on websites and exploit vulnerabilities found on a visitor's device to drop malware on the machine.

Cancer cells are notoriously adept at survival, even exploiting vulnerabilities within an individual's DNA to multiply and spread.

An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.

It raised $ 150 million, but hackers stole $ 50 million after exploiting a vulnerability.

It has no knowledge that anyone ever actually did exploit the vulnerability.

Thousands of professionals earn a living from exploiting the vulnerabilities and exhaustion of sleep deprived parents around the world, training babies and toddlers to «sleep through the night».

An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.

«In the case of CVE -2014-4148, the attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows TrueType Font (TTF) processing subsystem, using a Microsoft Office document to embed and deliver a malicious TTF to an internal organization,» according to researchers at FireEye, who found the bug.

As Barroso explained, the black market nature of abortions in Brazil has attracted scam artists who exploit the vulnerability of women seeking to end their pregnancies.

It's worth clarifying that SYNful Knock isn't exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco devices.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

What all these cases had in common was that researchers exploited vulnerabilities in the publishers» computerized systems to dupe editors into accepting manuscripts, often by doing their own reviews.

The report makes reference to malware such as Mirai and Reaper as prime examples of why IoT security is in need of a rehaul: both botnets exploited vulnerabilities where users had not acted to change default passwords, or manually run patches on internet - connected devices.

as prime examples of why IoT security is in need of a rehaul: both botnets exploited vulnerabilities where users had not acted to change default passwords, or manually run patches on internet - connected devices.

While the intention of «The DAO» was to create a digital decentralized investment fund, its experiment in investor - directed venture capital was thrown into a state of chaos when on June 17, 2016 a hacker exploited a vulnerability in The DAO code and stole USD $ 50 million worth of tokens, the equivalent of one third of The DAO assets.

(The NSA exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems, and its hacking techniques were then stolen and leaked onto the Internet.)

In November 2017, a pseudonymous actor exploited a vulnerability in Parity's multi-signature Ethereum wallet library that rendered half a million ether inaccessible to their owners.Ironically, the culprit, Devops199, was trying to patch another vulnerability that allowed hackers to steal $ 32 million from Parity's multi-signature wallet accounts back in...

In a recent interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, former Facebook president Sean Parker alleges that the creators of the social media platform «knowingly exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.»

In Spellbound, we explore how mediums and psychics use a system called «cold reading» to exploit vulnerabilities hard - wired into our brains.

The global cyberattack in May exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows — but a patch had been available since March.

Middle managers exploited vulnerabilities they identified in the organization to come up with ways to make it look like their workers were achieving goals when they weren't.»

Researchers were able to keep resistant bacteria from thriving by alternating antibiotics to specifically exploit the vulnerabilities that come along with resistance — a strategy that could extend the lifespan of existing drugs to continue fighting even the most persistent pathogens.

It is this trust that gives hackers the opportunity to exploit vulnerabilities like the ones we found in these dating apps,» said IBM Security vice president Caleb Barlow.

The way that MATs look upon special schools sadly reflects how these schools have always been seen but the author is correct; acadamisation seriously endangers the development of these schools and the system encourages MATs to wrongly exploit their vulnerability to shallow and ill - informed manipulation.

Adobe has scrambled to fix problems as they have become public, but they are unable to keep up with the rising tide of hackers exploiting vulnerabilities with the plugin.

Can an attacker exploit these vulnerabilities when I am using email on my BlackBerry smartphone?

The script exploited a vulnerability in the website which was intended to communicate with tablets by the provider through a unique URL that was specific for each customer through their Integrated Circuit Card Identifier («ICC - ID»).

Heartbleed exploited a vulnerability in OpenSSL.

Multiple players are capable of exploiting the vulnerabilities present in the often insecure, black - box proprietary code and unsecurable, antiquated legacy technology upon which U.S. election tabulation infrastructure relies.

For instance, they might use the platform to place stories of the idyllic Chinese countryside or iconic pandas next to coverage of a mass shooting in the United States because the contrast perceived by the viewer exploits a vulnerability in their perception and implants a favorable subliminal impression of China.

«While we acknowledge that critical vulnerabilities such as these create challenging trade - offs between disclosure and secrecy, as premature disclosure may give malicious actors time to exploit the vulnerabilities before mitigations are developed and deployed, we believe that this situation has shown the need for additional scrutiny regarding multi-party coordinated vulnerability disclosures,» the committee leaders wrote.

The press release goes on to state that the company long ago stopped using Superfish, and it also claims «we are not aware of any actual instances of a third party exploiting the vulnerabilities to gain access to a user's communications,» which is not exactly reassuring.

Google's team showed how a virtual machine exploited the vulnerability to take over the host machine and then another virtual machine, which means this flaw can actually impact entire server networks.

The UniDumpper app exploits the vulnerability in the WPS of the router and...

Exploiting the vulnerability allowed the hackers to escape with approximately 153,000 Ether in three separate transactions.

The security company also discovered that hackers had actively exploited the vulnerability in the Telegram Desktop app, which is based on the right - to - left override Unicode method, since March last year, but only to mine cryptocurrencies like Fantomcoin, Monero, and Zcash.

As long as the app requested high - level permissions (which users often don't even check before installing), the app could then exploit the vulnerability and install whatever kind of harmful apps it wanted on the system.

At 11:30 a.m. (CDT) on July 19, 2017, a hacker managed to steal 153,000 ETH (approximately $ 32 million at the time) from three Ethereum wallets by exploiting a vulnerability within the wallets» multi-signature verification.

Though the researchers don't report evidence of attackers exploiting the vulnerability, Sweeney, Yoo and Zang said the fear is that it might be used to either undermine confidence in elections or even to swing the result in favor of a particular candidate.

As one of the world's leading search engines, it's important that these trade secrets do not become common knowledge to ensure that companies can not exploit vulnerabilities in the code to promote their sites unfairly,» explains a resource from AGI.