The perpetrators are everywhere and increasingly sophisticated, and they could be government spy organizations, organized criminals, or affiliated or independent hackers of many different stripes.
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Conspiracy theorists point a finger at terrorists or teenage hackers.
Much of its code is simply camouflage -- 3, 000 lines of programming that make it hard to understand and even harder for an enemy team of coders or even hackers in the civilian population to copy and use themselves.
They might think that this information is harmless, but simple things such as knowing where someone banks or what they buy on a regular basis could allow hackers or fraudsters to make use social engineering tricks to get access to confidential information.
There were a series of stories in the last 48 hours or so about hackers, cybersecurity issues, and I addressed that in the briefing yesterday.
What if web jams, hackers or amateur counters ruin best intentions?
With HackRF in the hands of hackers or security researchers, in other words, no wireless signal would remain secure just by virtue of using a unique, unfamiliar frequency.
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But most of those sites still remain vulnerable to SQL injection--meaning the same group of hackers or a copycat group could use similar techniques to redirect the sites' visitors to another server hosting malicious software, Danchev argues.
Mr O'Neill can arrange insurance against a range of risks, including data theft, virus attacks or intrusions by malicious hackers, and loss of income owing to a security breach or network failure.
Touch-screen voting machines don't have keyboards, Internet connections or even ports that hackers could exploit.
Lynch would not say who masterminded the attacks globally, who the hackers are or where they were located, citing an ongoing investigation.
And it can get started through nefarious third-party apps, or when people download malware outside Facebook or Twitter that gives hackers control of their computers.
The first is known as data execution prevention, or DEP, a measure designed to prevent hackers from hijacking programs by sneaking their own commands into what is meant to be harmless content like pictures or text.
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Most hackers have no rules or regulation and when someone comes in the room they do not jump up and salute.
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Whether you call them hackers, crackers, or computervredebreuk (Dutch for "disturbers of the peace of a computer"), there's no doubt that as long as computing systems exist, people will be looking for -- and finding -- ways to break into them.
And if a daily deal site can go dark, can it also be hacked or otherwise brought to its knees by hackers?
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No personal records for hackers to steal from companies or banks.
Every few months some consulting firm trying to (literally) scare up some business will come out with a report about how Bluetooth or WiFi or some other thing is vulnerable to hackers and is a major security risk.
If left unprotected, these same wireless transmitters can be tapped by hackers to collect personal data, or even reprogram the implant.
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Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I've met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.
The software can import the passwords you've already stored through your browser's Autofill tool or it can generate replacement passwords that are difficult for hackers to crack.
Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works.
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But rarely have hackers breached a bank itself rather than the partners or retail outlets that often store large caches of those card numbers.
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Of course, these search engine hacking tools could also be used by malicious hackers trying to suss out vulnerabilities in a target or strafe the Internet for new victims.
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Hackers have banded before but never in such great numbers or with such political zeal as Anonymous.
Lots of hackers are motivated by political, religious, environmental, or other personal beliefs.
Financially motivated attacks typically rely on computer code that hackers plant on victims' computers, often as attachments or links in emails sent to employees.
Two unnamed "people familiar with the matter" told Bloomberg that the hackers appeared to be looking for research, intellectual property or other private information that they can sell on the underground market.
Or that the suit was based on a federal law aimed at computer hackers, not manufacturers of defective products.
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