BUFFALO, N.Y. — A team of five University at Buffalo students proved they could successfully defend a business from nefarious computer hackers and took first place in the third annual Lockdown cyberdefense competition April 9 in the UB School of Management. Graduate students Mohammed Arif Ali, Gee Sung, Aditya Sreedhara…
Engineering director charged with hacking into computer
SINGAPORE – An engineering director of a company was charged on Tuesday (April 12) with 53 counts of computer misuse in connection with the coverage of the 2015 South-east Asian Games (SEA Games) held in Singapore. Tan Khoon Guan, 58, is alleged to have gained access into the settings of…
Ethical hackers to test computer network security
Leicester city council have hired ‘ethical hackers’ to help them improve their cyber security. Over the past 18 months, 11 council staff have had their computers infected, which caused localised disruption to their desktops. The council have decided to employ two IT auditors as part of their cyber resilience programme…
Study suggests nearly half of people will plug an unknown USB drive into their computer
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Dive Brief: A group of University of Illinois researchers released a study this week that found 48% of people will plug an unknown USB drive into their computer. To test whether hackers could use booby-trapped USBs to gain network access, last…
Oklahoma Computer hacker pleads guilty in Texas case
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An Oklahoma City man faces up to 10 years in prison for a computer hacking attempt targeting a cybersecurity company. Benjamin Earnest Nichols remains free on bond pending sentencing in federal court in Dallas. The 37-year-old Nichols pleading guilty Tuesday to…
Computer systems being targeted by Ransomware
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Not all kidnappers grab your loved ones. A growing online threat – ransomware – essentially abducts your computer system, putting data and services off-limits to users and demanding a payment to restore access. “We are seeing more cases of this –…
Hackers find a way into your computer through remote access program
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans What if having a password to log onto your computer couldn’t stop a hacker from getting in? What if the one thing you overlooked, is leaving the door to your personal or business files wide open? There’s a remote access program…
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Hacker Lexicon: Botnets, the Zombie Computer Armies That Earn Hackers Millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ZOMBIE ARMIES AREN’T just invading movie screens these days. They’re also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, that gives a bot herder remote control…
