Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HACKERS tricked one woman into sharing her details, before asking her to send them a sex video, threatening to leak her personal and intimate photos if she didn’t. Here the women reveals how they did it. “I was stupid enough ……
KrebsOnSecurity site under attack after DDoS-for-hire service was exposed and alleged owners arrested
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Security researcher Brian Krebs’ website KrebsOnSecurity came under “heavy and sustainable” attack after two 18 year-old Israeli hackers were arrested over their connection with a DDoS-for-hire service called vDOS. The arrests coincided with an article, which exposed the two hackers The…
CYBER SECURITY VULNERABILITIES OF FTSE 100 COMPANIES EXPOSED
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Anomali, provider of market-leading threat intelligence platforms, has today revealed the prevalence of suspicious brand spoofing and mass compromised credential exposures of the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 (FTSE 100). Over the last three months, eighty one companies in the FTSE…
Philippines Voter Database Exposed By Hackers
The breach could be the biggest-yet hack of government-held data, according to Trend Micro A breach of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) affecting about 55 million people could be the largest hack of government-held data ever, according to security specialists. Government representatives have downplayed the seriousness of the breach,…
JD Wetherspoon data breach exposed details of over 650,000 customers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans JD Wetherspoon is the latest high-profile company to become victim of a cyber attack. A hacker gained access to a database containing the details of over 650,000 JD Wetherspoon customers. The database mainly contained names, dates of birth, email addresses and…
55,000 Social Security Numbers exposed in the security breach of VFW.org
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Veterans of Foreign Wars recently began notifying their users that hackers hacked into VFW.org and hackers were able to see their users personal information. In February 2014 , Veterans of Foreign Wars bitterest was hacked by hackers and hackers…
Cars Exposed to Hacking Inside Car Dealerships
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Security researcher Craig Smith developed a device to test if car diagnostics tools used in car dealerships to test and fix modern cars can be hacked and then used as infection stations, spreading malware to other cars. Craig named this concept…
ISIS hacker who exposed troops’ personal info killed in drone strike
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The cyber hacker affiliated with the Islamic State Hacking Division, responsible for exposing the personal information of hundreds of U.S. military and government personnel, has been killed in a drone strike. The Wall Street Journal reports that Junaid Hussain, also known as Abu Hussain…
Here’s every type of data exposed in the Ashley Madison hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Share on Facebook Tweet (233) Share (4) Pin There are plenty of ways to look up whether your information has been exposed in the Ashley Madison hack — all you need is an email address. And while that alone certainly speaks volumes,…
Find out if your Android device is exposed to MMS attacks using Zimperium’s Stagefright Detector App
Last week, security researchers from Zimperium have reported on a vulnerability in Android’s Stagefright media playback library, one that is thought to affect about 950 million active Android devices. In a nutshell, potential hackers can take control of the affected smartphones by sending a malicious SMS. For more details on…
