Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Beware! Hackers can cause Traffic jams with just a navigation Smartphone application. Two Israeli students were assigned by college to hack Google-owned Waze GPS app, an Israeli-made Smartphone app that provides directions and alerts drivers to traffic and accidents.Shir Yadid and…
Latest Android phones hijacked with tidy one-stop-Chrome-pop
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans PacSec Google’s Chrome for Android has been popped in a single exploit that could lead to the compromise of any handset. The exploit, showcased at MobilePwn2Own at the PacSec conference in Tokyo yesterday but not disclosed in full detail, targets the…
Newsweek Twitter feed hijacked by pro-IS hacker
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Newsweek’s Twitter feed was briefly hijacked by hackers who displayed messages supporting the Islamic State group. The feed showed images similar to those from the hacking of the social media feed of the US Central Command last month. The account showed…
Shadowy Russian hacker group hijacked 1.2 billion usernames, passwords
A Wisconsin security firm claims that a Russian criminal group has accumulated the largest known collection of stolen online usernames and passwords via SQL injections, according to a new report in The New York Times on Tuesday. Hold Security, […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
BNP Official Twitter Account and The Account Of Its Leader Griffin Hijacked
Twitter feeds of the British National Party and its chairman Nick Griffin were attacked by some anonymous Hacktivists. @NickGriffinMEP profile has 29,000 followers. The hack was just a mischief attempt, as it was not something against the politician for his view over homosexuals, minorities, and the immigrants. The hackers modified…
Facebook: most logins hijacked by Israeli hacker were invalid
The Facebook credentials (e-mail addresses and passwords) stolen by an Israeli hacker, who calls himself Hannibal online, last week were in the order of tens of thousands. Although he claimed to have posted some 185,000 stolen accounts, it turned out he had posted fewer than 50,000. Furthermore, Facebook today confirmed…
The gang that hijacked your computer
Five men believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks — and to have pocketed several million dollars from online schemes — are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to investigators at Facebook and several independent computer security researchers….
Microsoft’s YouTube channel hijacked by previous owner
Microsoft’s official YouTube channel was hijacked on Saturday and all videos hosted on it were temporarily removed. The hacker replaced them with others claiming that Microsoft is holding a contest. “We are sponsoring” and “Make us a Background to Get Subbox!!!” were the titles of two rogue videos published by…
BitTorrent web downloads hijacked to push fake antivirus
The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of its client for malware pushing fake antivirus software. Anyone who downloaded its uTorrent program between 4.20am Pacific time (12.20pm BST) and just after 6am on 13 September will…
