Despite their success, the team said it would be hard for malicious attackers to reproduce their work.

Beyond that, one can safely assume that the user is a malicious attacker.

The lack of awareness about attack vectors how a malicious attacker may access the information makes it fairly easy for any user to fall victim to such attacks.

It aims to improve the security of the Internet by raising awareness of the presence of compromised servers, malicious attackers and the spread of malware.

The method is risky when it uses computer-controlled events because a clever, malicious attacker might be able to predict a cryptographic key by controlling the external events.

This especially applies to network-related software, where continued development work may be necessary to close new entry points for malicious attackers and malicious software.

Blackhole filtering can also be abused by malicious attackers on compromised routers to filter out traffic destined to a certain address.

WHA soon developed a reputation for helping companies to secure their cyber systems, attacking with a mass user base similar to that of malicious attackers.

They claim malicious attackers took the site down.

Mallory, a fictional, placeholder name for a malicious attacker in computer security and cryptographic discussions; see Alice and Bob.