Sentence examples for exploiting a weakness from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government blocks sites by exploiting a weakness in the infrastructure of the Internet.

However, it's possible that the hacker who attained the latest batch of celebrity images did so by exploiting a weakness in the Apple system.

But as others have pointed out already, just because WhatsApp was exploiting a weakness in the overpriced schemes of your cellphone plan doesn't mean your carrier doesn't have a network to sell.

Alexander Machowetz, a Siemens spokesman, said none of the company's clients had been affected by the malware, which appeared designed to extract production data from industrial companies using Siemens software by exploiting a weakness in the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Known as the Aurora test, it demonstrated how it was possible to launch a cyber-attack on a big diesel generator by exploiting a weakness in a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.

In the first case, a third party, the hacker, is committing a crime by exploiting a weakness in the product; in the latter case, the product fails without outside criminal intervention.

Pitchers have consistently thrown him inside, trying to exploit a weakness that has largely disappeared.

But when Ellis Burks singled with one out in the second, the Red Sox exploited a weakness.

One idea is to make them liable for damage caused when, say, hackers exploit a weakness in a software program.

It exploits a weakness in one of the pieces of code in the operating system, which can allow hackers access to the device.

Since then, the evolution of airport security has been a simple matter of back-and-forth: terrorists exploit a weakness, governments address the weakness and terrorists look for a new one.