Sentence examples for breach of computers from inspiring English sources

SHANGHAI — Tencent, a Chinese Internet company, denied on Friday that one of its employees had been involved in a recent breach of computers belonging to Japanese and Indian companies, as well as Tibetan activists.

A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate student at a Chinese university, Nicole Perlroth writes on Friday in The New York Times.

SAN FRANCISCO — A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate student at a Chinese university — putting a face on the persistent espionage by Chinese hackers against foreign companies and groups.

Minutes after the breach of computer security, Mr. Dorozhko invested $41,671 in put options that would expire worthless three days later unless IMS shares plunged before that.

Downing Street says it has detected no breach of computer security and as usual the leak is thought more likely to be down to human error – forwarding emails by mistake, leaving a computer switched on in the office, etc – than electronic hackery.

Breaches of computer defenses by worms, viruses, hacks and other intrusions that cause damage are another matter.

Virtually all breaches of computer security involve a fake identity, be it stealing a credit card number or accessing the internal documents of the European Commission.

They have created a system for testing computer-security networks by making computers themselves simulate the sorts of human error that leave networks vulnerable.Mistakes by users are estimated to be responsible for as many as 60% of breaches of computer security.

After the consumer credit bureau Equifax revealed last September that personal data from 145 million Americans had been exposed in a breach of its computers, a well-worn corporate scandal playbook kicked in.

The Justice Department declined to investigate the CIA's apparent breach of Senate computers, and has additionally said it won't reopen any investigation into the agency's abuse of torture tactics.

Kerviel is under formal investigation for breach of trust, computer abuse and falsification of documents.