Sentences with phrase «with hackers accessing»

The extramarital dating site was subject to a massive data breach, with hackers accessing the personal information of over 37m users, along with sensitive company information.

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As with any data - hungry application, voice assistants are constantly creating new packets of information — highly personal in some cases — that could be accessed or exploited by authorities or hackers.

Malware interferes with your computer's normal operation and gives hackers a chance to gain access to your computer and collect sensitive personal information, such as the sites you visit, the e-mail you send, and the financial records you keep.

If an online email account provider doesn't come encrypted with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection, then hackers may find it even easier to gain access to emails.

Hackers and unscrupulous fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated ways to gain access to your personal information via email, infect your software with viruses, and compromise your financial security.

Watch Out for Evil Twins Be aware of the methods a company or vendor uses to communicate with you, because hackers sometimes gain access to computers, data and accounts by posing as legitimate companies or agencies.

While you may think your own site isn't in the crosshairs of hackers, they're increasingly targeting small - business sites, infecting visitors with malware or cracking databases to access sensitive customer information.

Surprisingly, it came with a major security flaw that allowed hackers to access your computer without a password.

A South Korea lawmaker recently disclosed that hackers suspected to be North Korean gained access to Seoul's highly secured military intranet in September 2016 and made off with the US and South Korea's secret war plans.

Hackers accessed a JavaScript file in Browsealoud and injected it with coding that converts any server running the software into a crypto miner.

After gaining access, hackers can turn off power, prevent systems from shutting down, overheat computers and servers, and interfere with a dam's operations.

A few disable security measures or open secret «holes» into computer networks, providing hackers with easy access.

In order to make the program work with a wide range of Web technologies, Microsoft had made it easy for website developers to get access to the guts of the program while it ran on a user's machine — which meant the IE user's software could also be exploited by hackers, spammers, and other unscrupulous Web bottom feeders.

These vulnerabilities leave the gear open to hackers who can gain access into corporate networks through antiquated gear with outdated software.

But according to the NSA report, evidence that the hackers were also stealing the login credentials of people with administrative access to the voter - registration systems raises concerns that the Russians were able to do «anything they wanted» — including, Bardin said, breaching voting machines.

Cured in Android 5.1.1, Stagefright lets hackers gain full access to your phone with some specially crafted MMS messages.

On October 21st, hackers used lower - end internet connected devices to stifle access to the net with a series of mass DDoS attacks, affecting tens of millions of Americans.

As with any company that stores user information on a central database, the danger of hackers accessing that database is always looming.

With multisignature, a hacker would have to hack all of your devices at once, AND would need access to them all at the same time, AND you'd be notified of any pending transactions so you can reject them before they are broadcast and lost.

Pacific Crest starts coverage of Cyberark Software Ltd (NASDAQ: CYBR) with a Sector Weight rating as valuation keeps the brokerage at sidelines, despite the company's «promising opportunity» in privileged access management space, which is the basis of exploitation by today's hackers.

The problem with that is that if you have a hospital with 300 computers, you end up with 300 access points for a hacker to try and use.

With any kind of crypto - currency may it be a bitcoin, ether, litecoin, or the numerous other altcoins, thieves and hackers could potentially gain access to your personal keys and therefore take your cash.

Last year Brook was one of many celebrities who had photos accessed by online hackers, and this time, it's happened again — with multiple nude snaps of the likeable Brit circling the internet.

The fact is that hackers, phishers, and other people after your computer's information are going to continually come up with new and complex ways of gaining access to your system.

The latest smart - phone security vulnerability garnering attention is one that could allow a hacker to blitz one's iPhone or Android - based device with a deluge of SMS (short message service) text messages, an attack that could allow an intruder to plant a virus on the phone or at the very least cause the phone to shut down (disconnecting calls and Web access in the process).

Faced with possible threats — whether from disgruntled insiders with access to hazardous agents or from outsiders such as computer hackers or animal rights extremists — research institutions must develop security measures that do not compromise the creativity and risk - taking that is at the heart of a research environment.

Faced with possible threats — whether from disgruntled insiders with access to hazardous agents or from outsiders such as computer hackers or animal rights extremists — research institutions must develop security measures that do not compromise the creativity and risk - taking that is at the heart of...

The IBM study reveals that many of these dating applications have access to additional features on mobile devices such as the camera, microphone, storage, GPS location and mobile wallet billing information, which in combination with the vulnerabilities may make them exploitable to hackers.

Also, come up with a different password so the hackers can't get access to any of your other accounts.

Much like Batman with his cellular sonar - device in The Dark Knight, the God's Eye MacGuffin in Furious 7, Samuel Jackson's cellular brainwave chip thingy in Kingsman, and any number of lazily written movie characters described as hackers, Nathan achieves access to all camera / microphone devices in order to collect & synthesize your data, your self, your you.

With a strong firewall, direct access to your local network is prevented, hence you lock out hackers.

This way, even if users of your platform are hacked and an hacker tries to login, they will still need to authenticate with a code they can get through their mobile devices before their access is confirmed, thus making their login information practically useless in the average hacker's hands.

Canadian owners of these vehicles should not be worried because the version of UConnect sold here does not come with the cellular connectivity feature UConnect Access that gave the hackers their opening into the vehicle's computer systems, reports Postmedia.

Not surprisingly, this new update also closed root access that was previously enabled with the BurritoRoot tool, but fear not — as usual, the hackers behind this tool have already updated it and cracked 6.2.2.

UK - based retailer Carphone Warehouse has admitted that hackers have gained access to the personal records of up to 2.4 million of its customers, along with encrypted credit card data of 90,000 customers.

Android Police and RootzWiki put the hack together and tested with a group of savvy hackers before unveiling it to the world, and it consists of a relatively short series of steps that begins with a custom sideloaded app and ends with complete superuser access.

We all breathed a collective sigh of relief when we learned that Motorola provided the Xoom with an unlockable bootloader, giving developers and hackers easy access to the hardware.

The book is based on «British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18 - year - old schoolboy with Asperger's Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations.»

The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a modified version of Google Android, but hackers have already figured out how to root the tablet, install officially unsupported apps, and even access the bootloader.

Freezing your credit means they - along with any potential hackers - no longer have access to it.

That became the hole the hackers came through, that means they had access to all of the header information along with certain credit accounts that were currently in a dispute.

With this information the hacker can access the target's bank account.

If a hacker manages to get ahold of your username or email address, connected with your password, then that hacker can access any other account for which you use the same credentials.

Just a few days later, reports the BBC, Twitter was in touch with its legal counsel trying to assess the fallout after hundreds of its internal documents accessed by a hacker were published on the popular TechCrunch blog.

On the international site, which could only be accessed with a referral and a password, hackers advertised and sold their homemade software.

This breach occurred because the hackers had gained access to the login credentials of employees with system access.

Hackers gain access to data through a company's server or emails and either threaten to disclose it - known as data ransoming - or make it inaccessible with ransomware, a type of malware that can quickly infiltrate and...

«Court system hit with cyberattack»: Tony Romm of Politico.com has a report that begins, «Unidentified hackers took aim at the federal court system Friday, blocking access to its public website while preventing lawyers and litigants from filing legal documents online.»

In the event a device has been compromised, it is imperative that the issues are dealt with immediately to stop any potential viruses or hackers from accessing systems used by the firm through the compromised device.

With 256 - bit military - grade encryption, the same used by online banks, PracticePanther ensures that all data is transmitted through an encrypted connection that can't be accessed by hackers.