Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This may be a further sign of a rebound in the U.S. IPO market. ForeScout Technologies has interviewed investment banks in recent weeks to hire underwriters for an initial public offering that could value the U.S. network security company at The…
Talk Talk, Ashley Madison and now Apple show no company is immune from cyber attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Apple iPhone was thought to be safe from cyber attack. Not any more. First to reveal its vulnerabilities was the FBI, which in April paid $1.3m to an unknown source for a hacking tool to break into an iPhone. The…
Hackers Found Selling Access to 70,000 Company Computer Systems
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab says it has uncovered an online marketplace where criminals from all over the world sell access to more than 70,000 hacked corporate and government servers for as little as $6 each. Kaspersky discovered the forum after a…
Introducing the company that pays $1 million for Apple hacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans NEW YORK– There’s a vibrant underground market for tools to hack you, but one company is making offers out in the open. Last year, Zerodium publicly offered $1 million for a powerful, new hack that would remotely sneak into an iPhone…
Prison phone company recorded private lawyer-inmate calls, hack reveals Bills
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Concerns about civil liberty violations are spreading after an unidentified hacker recently breached Securus Technologies and released the audio of an estimated 70 million phone conversations of USA prisoners -including communications between attorneys and their clients. “It is very important to…
Prison phone company recorded private lawyer-inmate calls, hack reveals NYSE Post
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Calling it “the most massive breach of the attorney-client privilege in modern US history”, the American Civil Liberties Union told The Intercept that while prisoners lose many of their constitutional rights, the right to speak privately with an attorney – related…
‘Every company vulnerable to TalkTalk style hacking attack under Snooper’s Charter’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Every company is vulnerable to a hacking attack like the one suffered by TalkTalk, it was claimed as it emerged that companies may be powerless to prevent criminals stealing their customers’ data. Security experts said that the so-called snooper’s charter, which…
Google’s new holding company now “owns” the whole alphabet, sort of
This past summer, Google pulled a maneuver that caught pretty much everyone by surprise, creating a holding company to oversee all the different businesses the enterprise found itself pursuing. While it does not substantially change what Google and the other business units are doing, it makes it easier for the…
Don’t expect HTC to promise monthly security updates says company executive Jason Mackenzie
With rival smartphone manufacturers like LG and Samsung promising monthly security updates along with Google (for its Nexus devices), HTC Americas president Jason Mackenzie sent out a tweet yesterday that called such updates “unrealistic.” The monthly updates were a response to the Stagefright vulnerability, which first started getting noticed in…
Next OnePlus phone will be a mid-range model says company executive
The upcoming OnePlus handset that company co-founder Carl Pei said would launch before Christmas, is a mid-range model that will be priced in a range between $180-$300. That comes from a report in today’s Economic Times, which quotes OnePlus India GM Vikas Agarwal as saying that the device is going…
