Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Kevin Mitnick, famous former black hat hacker, demonstrates just how easy it is for a hacker to tap into your network and read your email. And he’s doing it with a fiber optic network connection, not a simple and very non-secure…
Polish Airline Cancels Flights After Hacker Attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Poland’s LOT airline has been forced to cancel around 10 foreign and domestic flights after hackers attacked its computers. Airline spokesman Adrian Kubicki said the hacker attack temporarily paralyzed LOT’s computers at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport on Sunday, disrupting the processing…
World-famous hacker Kevin Mitnick and KnowBe4 fight phishing with training
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The success of social engineering must frustrate those responsible for an organization’s digital security. There is no simple solution or device that will take social engineering off the bad-guys’ play list. And, if anyone knows that, it is Kevin Mitnick —…
Hacker hunt intensifies in trenches of U.S.-China cyberwar
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Security researchers have many names for the hacking group that is one of the suspects for the cyber-attack on the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management: PinkPanther, KungFu Kittens, Group 72 and, most famously, Deep Panda. But to…
‘Come at me Aussie police’: Hacker behind posts of hundreds of pictures of naked Queensland women taunts authorities and vows to keep uploading them
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker responsible for sharing nude images of up to 700 Brisbane women on a New Zealand-based file-sharing service online, has taunted police after they ordered for the photos to be removed. The freely available images, which showed ‘girls from Brisbane…
The US will get a chance to try a hacker who allegedly helped steal millions from payment processors
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A man allegedly behind some of the world’s biggest and most lucrative hacks is going to be tried in US courts. Turkish citizen Ercan Findikoglu has been extradited to the United States and is being charged with helping execute a series…
Hundreds of .Gov Credentials Found In Public Hacker Dumps
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans IT’S NO SURPRISEthat careless government employees use their .gov email addresses to sign up for all sorts of personal accounts. But when those insecure third party services are breached by hackers—and if those employees were foolish enough to reuse their .gov passwords, too—that carelessness…
Secret Service nabs ‘most-wanted’ computer hacker
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Secret Service’s financial crimes branch just notched a major victory by nabbing the most-wanted computer hacker in the world, a Turkish man accused of running a global operation to hack automated teller machines. Ercan Findikoglu, 33, is set to be…
Computer Ransom Hacker Jailed In New York
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Swedish man who created malware which infected half a million computers around the world has been jailed in New York. Alex Yucel, 25, owned the Blackshade organisation which sold sophisticated software to thousands of hackers in more than 100 countries….
SEC Investigates FIN4 Hacker Group
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has contacted at least eight public companies seeking information on data breaches as part of an investigation into the FIN4 hacker group, Reuters reports. FIN4, which targets top executives, legal counsel, scientists and researchers at…
