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Intelligence officials, cyber experts, and political campaigns have long been bracing for the possibility that these attacks could escalate through November 6. — Benjamin Wofford, Vox, "The midterms are already hacked. You just don’t know it yet.," 25 Oct. 2018 Brook Conner, a 49-year-old Hawaii resident and cyber security expert, told the New Yorker on the day of the alert. — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, "FEMA to Test Presidential Alert Wireless Emergency System," 15 Sep. 2018 The cyber divisions problems won’t end when the shutdown does. — Joseph Marks, The Seattle Times, "Shutdown hits FBI cyber investigations hard, agents say," 23 Jan. 2019 But the upgrades coming should make the service more reliable and accurate for civilians, more secure against those who want to jam military users, and more cyber-secure for everyone. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "USAF's Next-Gen GPS Satellites Will Be a Huge Upgrade...Eventually," 26 Dec. 2018 Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images The US Department of Justice has charged two Chinese hackers accused of a vast and global cyber campaign to steal business and technology secrets. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "US charges Chinese government-linked hackers accused of a decade-long global cyber campaign," 20 Dec. 2018 Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong were part of a Chinese hacking group known in the cyber security community as Advanced Persistent Threat 10, or APT10, according to the indictment. — Sean O'kane, The Verge, "Chinese hackers charged with stealing data from NASA, IBM, and others," 20 Dec. 2018 Pentagon's new cyber strategy lists Russia, China as biggest threats. — Fox News, "FOX NEWS FIRST: Questions surround Kavanaugh's accuser after investigation demands; New hope for nuke-free N. Korea," 19 Sep. 2018 The man, who lives with his parents in the western German state of Hesse, targeted people whose public comments had angered him, said Georg Ungefuk, a spokesman for the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office unit that fights cyber crime. — Ruth Bender, WSJ, "German Hacking Arrest Quells Fears Attack Was Foreign Backed," 8 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cyber.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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