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hacker

[hak-er] / ˈhæk ər /


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The French finance ministry announced on February 18 that a hacker had gained access to a national bank database and consulted information on 1.2 million accounts.

From Barron's

One such report from last year acknowledged its AI technology had been "weaponised" by hackers who used it to conduct sophisticated cyber-attacks.

From BBC

Ms. Neuberger argues that the risk of hackers using AI to accelerate their attacks on our computer systems requires us to use AI to defend those systems, as manual human intervention is too slow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Robert McMillan writes about computer security, hackers and privacy from The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the Colonial Pipeline attack, Russia-based hackers used a compromised password to gain access to the pipeline’s network, causing fuel shortages and panic buying at gasoline stations.

From The Wall Street Journal