Sentence examples for use the exploit from inspiring English sources

"It chose to use the exploit, not tell Microsoft about it and weaponise it, and now it has been leaked, made public and used in an attack," he said.

What's worrisome is that attackers with IP addresses in China or Saudi Arabia might have been able to use the exploit to confirm that certain accounts belonged to users in their countries and whether they've been locked.

This effectively prevented anyone from using the exploit to hear audio before the call was connected.

"There were several other tiny hacks using the exploit - I only created the worm," he said.

Symantec said its researchers had found two apps distributed in China that had been infected using the exploit.

Graham Cluley, a computer security expert with Sophos, told BBC News that the exploit used the same principle as Jailbreakme - a utility that lets iPhone 4 owners run non-Apple approved applications - although it uses the exploit in a benign way.

Friday brought allegations that the NSA not only knew of Heartbleed, but had used the exploit for some time, perhaps two years.

Although, a remote exploit gives the adversary control of a single virtual machine, by using the exploit in a virus the entire cloud could be compromised.

Interestingly enough they've used the exploit to infect the United Nations main page, dumping SEO noise into the HTML and potentially sending users to a website running the exploit.

At the same time as using the exploit the search giant said on its help centre that Safari users did not need to take extra steps to prevent their online activities from being logged.

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