Sentences with phrase «used by criminals»

Credit reports contain extensive personal information that can be used by criminals to commit identity fraud.

Banking Trojans are used by criminals to capture a victim's banking credentials to wipe the bank account clean.

Experts have (erroneously) stated that Bitcoin is mainly used by criminals that buy drugs and weapons through the deep web.

Traditional payment methods such as credit cards and PayPal are often used by criminals and hackers, even for smaller purchases such as a Humble Bundle.

Politicians like the underlying technology, they are prone to insist, but aren't sure about the cryptocurrency itself, which is used by criminals...

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Assuming Strava's user base is made up of serious cyclists who invest heavily in the best equipment, the app can be used by criminals as an accurate map of where to find expensive bikes they might want to steal.

Naturally, Rogoff glosses over both the current and future benefits of transacting Bitcoin in favor of any FUD thrower's favorite argument: it's only used by criminals.

It's not only used by criminals.»

Still, virtual currencies are used by some criminals as it is a means of exchange.

The common myths that cryptocurrency is «unregulated» or predominately used by criminals are being slowly disproven by statistics.

Bitcoin has been used by criminals for years as a way of avoiding physical money movement, with the transfer of digital tokens resulting in them being less likely to be caught.

Still, virtual currencies are used by some criminals as it

Far too often, the media and traditional financial institutions love to paint Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as being commonly used by criminals.

TBML covers the wide range of intricate and complicated schemes used by criminals to disguise the origins of their money and integrate it into the legitimate economy.

That's no different than trying to stop the use of any tool used by criminals.

It would be unfortunate (to say the least) when for example websites are taken down that provide these tools for security professionals, because the same tools could be used by criminals.

More so in terms of how firearms must be used and controlled by the licenced owner, because most of the time firearms are used by criminals.

The Purple Notice — to seek or provide information on modi operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals — was requested by Costa Rica following its first National Environmental Security Seminar (NESS) held in San José in August of this year.

Pet advocates suggest that owners get pets spayed or neutered so they can't be used by criminals for breeding.

All of that information can be used by criminals to access your accounts or create new accounts in your name.

While these techniques are completely legal, they are often used by criminals to launder money or convert stolen card numbers into cash.

In order to prevent the mishap, McCabe and his teammate, Rudy, finds out about the machine used by the criminals which leads them to a psychotic thrilling fight between the terrorist Read the rest of this entry»

The «Sherlock» TV series keeps many details of the original series — for example, it still makes sense for John Watson to be a doctor who served in Afghanistan as he was in the original stories — but other plot points are updated for the show, with cell phones and other technology often used by the criminals whom Sherlock and Watson are hunting and by the pair themselves.

It is also used by criminals who wish to hide their identity, so it is unsurprisingly used by those perpetrating fraud on online dating sites.

But it can also be used by criminals who want to hide the fact they're coming from IP addresses in countries known for a high rate of online fraud.

Training and awareness: Employees are unaware of tricks used by criminals to extract access codes; lack of reinforcement due to low frequency of security incidents leads to extinction of defensive behavior.

He warned that their existence have security implications because they are veritable channels being used by the criminals which is in nobody's interest.

«The risk of a false positive makes it unlikely to be used by criminals to scope out a home,» he said.

They are trained now to intercept drones used by criminals.

Lets just say there are 3 million to stay on the low side; what you suggest is to ban a weapon owned by over 3 million law abiding citizens, because it is used by criminals.008 % of the time??? Also, no civilian without a CLASS III federal license owns a real «assault weapon».

Still, virtual currencies are used by some criminals as it is a means of exchange.

And it notes the European Central Bank's (ECB) report «Virtual Currency Schemes» (October 2012) worrying that «virtual currency schemes -LSB-...] could represent a challenge for public authorities, given the legal uncertainty surrounding these schemes, as they can be used by criminals, fraudsters and money launderers to perform their illegal activities.»

«The Cisco data breach report highlights the continually evolving techniques used by criminals to exfiltrate sensitive corporate data, and the resulting impact on business performance.

And the Bundesbank mounted a lonely opposition in 2016 to the ECB's decision to retire the 500 euro note, its highest denomination, due to suspicions it was used by criminals.

Governments start to realize that these are being used by criminals and money launderers and things like that and so they say, «We need more information.»

The scarcity of illegal guns is reportedly so bad that stolen antique guns are frequently used by gangs, and U.K. law enforcement officials now estimate that only around 1,000 guns are in use by criminal elements in the entirety of the U.K.

That's what history has suggested,» Hoffner said, noting that as these technologies have grown more popular, their uses by the criminal underworld have generally abated to some extent.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the department is monitoring cryptocurrency developments, with particular attention to its use by criminals.

So, since VIX - suppression has been a well - known but under - advertised mechanism used by the Criminal Interventionalists to juice stock prices, it appeared to me as the utmost «Fade the Fed,» contrarian, set - up trade EVER.

But won't making the covert hard disk software open source — as the group plans — encourage its use by criminals and terror groups?

What this is really about is how Big Data could be used by a criminal organization to subvert democracy for their own gains.

For a cyber criminal, this kind of information can be sold on the dark web or used by the criminal themselves.

While the defense used by your criminal defense attorney will be tailored specifically to the facts of your charges, there are several defenses which could be applicable in your case, such as:

Therefore when certain aggravating circumstances exist the maximum prison term for certain offences is raised to at least 5 years, for example when botnets (a network of infected computers which can be controlled remotely) are used by a criminal organization or when attacks are launched on a significant number of information systems.

While the lack of regulation and use by criminals once formed the basis of attacks on Bitcoin, «bubble» is the latest condemnation used by skeptics.

Custom encrypted phones have long been used by criminal gangs as a way for members to securely communicate with each other, but law enforcement agencies are cracking down on companies that provide them.

«As a community, we certainly don't advocate for Monero's use by criminals,» core developer Riccardo Spagni told Bloomberg.

Modified, analyzed and developed code for Intergraph's software suite called I / LEADS, specifically RMS and JMS application software used by criminal justice agencies

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Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.