Sentence examples for attacks on the computer from inspiring English sources

From his first months in office, Mr. Obama ordered sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment plants, according to participants in the program.

They appear to have been caused by attacks on the computer networks of power companies and U.S. electricity providers are probably vulnerable to similar hacks.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday criticized a Pentagon report that explicitly accused China's military of staging attacks on the computer systems of the American government and military contractors.

WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.

HONG KONG — China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday criticized a Pentagon report that explicitly accused China's military of staging attacks on the computer systems of the American government and military contractors.

Today, Ms. Hathaway is the primary author of White House cyberstrategy and has been traveling the country talking in vague terms about recent, increasingly bold attacks on the computer networks that keep the country running.

Witness U.S. attempts to impede the operation of the centrifuges in Iran and its acknowledged attacks on the computers of ISIS.

Over the years, there have been private warnings issued to China, notably after an attack on the computer systems used by the office of the defense secretary two years ago.

Among other things, she said, his 2011 attack on the computer system of the Arizona Department of Public Safety had disrupted the state's sex offender website and Arizona's Amber Alert System, which broadcasts messages about abducted children.

Government prosecutors had painted a picture of a young man who made "a deliberate and full-scale attack" on the computer network Internet, which is made up of computers at corporate, university and military sites and is composed of 1,200 separate networks.

According to the Novaya Gazeta account (which offers more detail than the Kommersant report which broke the story), the FBI, acting upon a leak from the four "traitors," identified a Russian IT company, King Servers, as mounting a cyber-attack on the computer voting systems of Arizona and Illinois.