"illicit access" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing unauthorized or illegal entry or use of something. Example: The company's security breach was caused by illicit access to their database by a hacker.
A human weakness in us, an unavoidable crudity, makes these letters fascinating, infinitely readable and spiced with the attraction of illicit access.
He's also in the process of earning millions through speculative trading on the side, thanks to his illicit access to his boss's secret account.
Please don't confuse the two, making the former suffer disability because you can't think of anyway of controlling the illicit access of the latter.
A DDoS attack is not hacking, it does not require the perpetrator to gain illicit access to the system – instead it involves directing a colossal flood of network traffic at the site until its servers buckle under the load.
Slightly less quotidian is the phrase dictionary attack, which describes an attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using an enormous set of words to generate potential passwords.
The school warned that personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to 7,000 students who had taken courses in the past year and to 130 faculty and staff members, was at risk of illicit access.
In this regard, formal access control frameworks (e.g., [19, 20]), which are designed to prevent illicit accesses from authenticated users by appropriately defining (and restricting) permissions, have been proposed.
He said Adams sent him the ONdigital codes so that other pirates could use them to manufacture thousands of counterfeit smartcards, giving viewers illicit free access to ONdigital, which was then locked in fierce competition with Sky.
In his plea agreement, Moore said that he told an associate, Charles Evens, to illegally access illicit photos stored on email accounts, prosecutors said.
It's easier than ever to access illicit goods and services under the radar, and the informal economy of unlicensed and untaxed business has also ballooned.
David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, tweeted on Friday evening that the DNC's treatment of Sanders campaign staff's illicit attempts to access and copy Hillary Clinton's voter data absent "evidence that [Sanders'] hierarchy knew about data-poaching" was a "harsh penalty" that "looks like DNC is putting finger on scale" for Clinton.
