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How to use the word HACKING in a Sentence?

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Bad actors have won the jackpot, previously private data such as emails, handles, and creation date can be leveraged to build smarter and more sophisticated hacking, phishing and disinformation campaigns.

Rafi Mendelsohn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter.

Yoel Roth

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If Russia, because of the incredibly high tensions created by the Ukraine invasion, seeks to lash out at the US by mucking up our midterm elections, one way they could do that is by hacking into Twitter, taking over accounts of prominent people, having them say divisive things and creating chaos the way Russians have shown they like to do.

Paul Barrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In recent months, [ the hacking group ] has compromised the networks of US-based organizations that have data of interest to the Russian government.

Charles Carmakal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is an abuse which has been compounded by the manner in which the father has contested these allegations and instructed his lawyers. Despite the weight of evidence, the fact of hacking was never conceded, nor was the fact that such hacking had been by Pegasus.

Andrew McFarlane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The ability to create so many new accounts is classic Anonymous social-technological hacking, it's low-hanging fruit.

Gabriella Coleman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think it has to be evaluated in the context of the entire investigation ; it's just one part of the story, some of the technical critiques around how the forensics were performed and what data were and were not analyzed are fair, but this is in no way a' typical' phone hacking case, if there is such a thing.

Kenneth White

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos phone are absurd, we call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out.

The Saudi Embassy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

She jumped up and ran outside, coughing and hacking.

John Hammell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We speed toward the 2020 elections in an environment in which there are new technologies like deepfakes that are potentially hugely disruptive, and even less attributable than a hacking and dumping operation, and we are not nearly as prepared as we should be.

Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Florida Department of State has no knowledge or evidence of any successful hacking attempt at the county level during the 2016 elections, upon learning of the new information released in the Mueller report, The Florida Department of State immediately reached out to The FBI to inquire which county may have been accessed, and they declined to share this information with us. The Florida Department of State maintains that the 2016 elections in Florida were not hacked. The Florida Voter Registration System was and remains secure, and official results or vote tallies were not changed.

Sarah Revell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think The Justice Department is clear from the indictment that came out The Justice Department's not about punishing journalism, The Justice Department is about assisting the hacking of a military computer to steal information from the United States government, and look, I'll wait and see what happens with the charges and how The Justice Department proceeds, but he skipped bail in the UK, the bottom line is United States has to answer for what United States has done, at least as it's been charged.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People have been hacking our menu for years.

Mike Haracz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We need people at his level who come from the hacking community and get it, but it's rare to see someone from that background have the leadership and communications skills. It's hard to believe that we might even see a hacker run for president.

Chris Wysopal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Companies should see that Chinese officials are seeking to acquire their intellectual property, not only through hacking, but also through the recruitment of insiders, companies should also see that working together with federal law enforcement authorities, as in this case, those attempted thefts can be thwarted and foreign actors can be brought to trial for their actions.

Ben Glassman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We will continue to work tirelessly to prevent foreign nations and malign actors from hacking into our election infrastructure and changing votes or election outcomes.

Mike Pence

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today's charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result. This is consistent with what we have been saying all along.

Lindsay Walters

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Is it just a story of Russia and WikiLeaks conspiring together to engage in computer hacking and then releasing information or was someone in Trump's orbit involved in that ?

Jens David Ohlin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Reporters were calling my parents, people were hacking my friends ’ phones. I was pissed. [ Though ] I kind of knew what I was getting Justin Bieber into.

Justin Bieber

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

... the fact is that this backdoor needs to be closed. There was a hacking of servers.

Olesya Bilousova

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I have to tell you Sen. King, I know nothing but what I've read in the paper, i've never received any detailed briefing on how hacking occurred or how information was alleged to have influenced the campaign.

Jeff Sessions

Found on CNN
6 years ago

…government agencies such as the CIA and the NSA have been spying on the citizenry through our smart TVs, listening in on our phone calls, hacking into our computerized devices (including our cars) and compromising our security systems through the use of spyware and malware.

John Whitehead

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Russia trying to influence or elections dates back to the Soviet Union, what they did here, hacking some emails and releasing them, is not a particularly fancy brand of espionage or propaganda. We were, frankly, more concerned in the run-up to the election to the possibilities of vote tampering, which we did not see evidence of and were confident that we could guard against. In the same interview, President Obama took the Russian hacking idea even further by alleging that Donald Trump in any way has direct ties to Russia.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Hacking people is relatively easier than hacking computers because humans are stupid and they tend to trust other humans which makes them vulnerable to each other.

Rafay Baloch

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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