hacker
Example Sentences
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"If a hacker can gain access to your backends, even with a backup, your game or at least your marketplace could go offline for weeks."
From BBC
Unfortunately, hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in this flawed system.
Yet hackers linked to its biggest adversary, Iran, have managed to pull off a series of successful breaches by using known vulnerabilities to attack institutions that aren’t as well-defended as the country’s critical infrastructure.
It comes after the Sun newspaper reported that hackers affiliated to the Chinese state accessed the data in October with information possibly including visa details targeted.
From BBC
Known as red-teaming, this kind of service will become more important as hackers turn to AI to speed up their attacks, Mandia said in an interview.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.