Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Microsoft hacker Itai Grady has created a tool to help protect blackhat scouts from stealing Windows credentials, an effort they hope will make network compromises harder to achieve. The SAMRi10 PowerShell script (the pair say it’s pronounced as samaritan) eliminates The…
Hackers use typosquatting to dupe the unwary with fake news, sites
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The proliferation of fake news has shone a light on another murky corner the web, the practice of typosquatting. These are the URLs that pass for common ones — say Amazoon.com instead of Amazon.com — if the user isn’t paying The…
Computer hackers target Saudi Arabia in series of virus attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have reportedly conducted a series of attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting the agency running the country’s airports and hitting five additional targets. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that the attacks took place over the last two weeks, citing two people The…
The Canadian government doesn’t want hackers’ help
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. Department of Defence has turned to well-intentioned hackers and independent security researchers to help the government agency find software bugs and vulnerabilities in its computer systems. But in Canada, the government appears to still have no formal The post…
Hackers Are Sneaking Malware Into Facebook Messenger Pictures
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The next time a long-forgotten Facebook friend sends you an odd picture, it’s probably best to leave it alone. Cyber-criminals have found a creative way to weasel into your computer: implanting malicious code inside a Facebook Messenger picture. For the The…
Hackers deface Bicol University website
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers defaced Bicol University’s (BU) website early Sunday after a controversial statement was released by the institution’s student body on their Facebook account. The cyber attack on the website of BU in Legazpi City, Albay, came a day after the The…
Three Mobile, two alleged hackers, one big customer database heist
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans UK carrier Three Mobile was the victim of a hacking scheme that has reportedly left the records of millions of customers exposed. According to multiple UK media reports citing both Three and the National Crime Agency (NCA), hackers gained access The…
Hackers’ modular worm builder hoses popular team web chat apps
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans KIWICON Hackers everywhere can now more easily compromise popular chat apps to steal users’ webcam and audio feeds using a worm framework published online – and they even have a new zero day to help the plundering. The framework, dubbed The…
Hackers are targeting Amazon accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For Christmas shoppers who use Amazon, there is a hack that is targeting accounts. A woman says a hacker got into her account and spent nearly $1,700 despite the fact that she changed her password multiple times. Once in her The…
Hackers Descend on the G20 Summit in China, Conducting Over 133,000 Malicious Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cybersecurity discussions were a top priority at the G20 Summit 2016, a global economic leadership forum attended by world leaders from 20 major economies; yet the event itself encountered a staggering number of attempted cyber attacks between September 3-6. NSFOCUS, The…
