Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Free Wi-fi may be a blessing to people who travel, but it could potentially expose users to hackers Dubai: With the summer travel season in full swing, holidaymakers from the UAE have been advised to be extra careful when using public…
IT warned to act now or risk losing access to vital online payment services.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Online businesses in the UK are being warned by Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs) that they could be locked out of secure websites including those used to make salary payments, if they don’t act to update their systems. From 13 June,…
Facebook’s new alert system warned the US about Iranian hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans How do you think the US would find out about a state-sponsored hack from Iran? SophisticatedSECURITY SOFTWARE? Surveillance? Nope — Facebook. According to the New York Times, State Department officials were tipped off about an Iranian hacking campaign thanks to Facebook…
Consumers warned about new smart card scams
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Advanced technology in credit and debit cards are helping in the fight against identity theft and consumer fraud, but local experts caution that even the new smart cards are not completely foolproof. The Utah Division of Consumer Protection warned consumers Wednesday…
CREDIT CARD — USERS WARNED OF SCAMS AMID SHIFT TO SECURITY CHIP CARDS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you’re a credit card user, you either have or will be getting new cards with security chips. They are designed to protect you against fraud, but scammers are already tying to exploit them. “It’s the biggest change in the way…
‘Canadian intelligence warned me twice of people spying on me’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Egypt has always had great credit in the development of science and technology. From time to another, a generation of scientists emerges in Egypt to change the world future. Daily News Egypt conducted an interview with Egyptian-Canadian scientist Hatem Zaghloul, who…
Android phone users warned of latest hacktest hacking threat
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Independent reports that all Android phones are vulnerable to a huge hack that could allow people to take over phones if people just watch one ‘innocent’ video. The bug has been called Stagefright 2 and is similar to a bug…
ISIS social media accounts are buzzing with a spreadsheet of personal data on employees of the American, British, and Australian governments, including military personnel. The Islamic State claims this list was compiled using data stolen from government systems by its “hacking division,” although some experts who have reviewed the list say most of it was more likely created using simple Google searches of publicly available data. There are about 1,400 individuals included on the list. The list was accompanied by a message from the “Islamic State Hacking Division,” transcribed by Sky News: O Crusaders, as you continue your aggression towards the Islamic State and your bombing campaign against the Muslims, know that we are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move. We have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands. So wait, we too are waiting. The Sydney Morning Herald criticizes Australian officials for being “caught on their heels” by the hit list, which includes Defense Force employees and a Victorian MP. Even though “Australia’s most senior Islamic State militant, former Melbourne man and terror recruiter Neil Prakash” was posting links to the hit list early Wednesday morning, at least half of the Australians targeted by ISIS said they were unaware of the threat until they were informed by the media… which contacted them using the phone numbers published by the Islamic State. “I’m completely at a loss,” said the aforementioned MP, who at least has access to a security detail assigned to protect elected officials. “What do I do? The police probably know less than you and I.” Defense Force employees on the list said they were in shock no one from the government had warned them. Various agencies of the Australian government declined to discuss the matter. In addition to Prakash – who crowed “Cyber war got em shook!” and “Kill them where you find them and enslave their women” on Twitter – the Herald reports “other prominent militants, including British man Junaid Hussain, who is third on a CIA kill list of Islamic State operatives, also used social media to promote the leak and encourage attacks.” Sky News reports the hit list includes British Foreign Office employees, plus a “local council employee.” Most of the names on the list are American, including personnel from the Air Force, Marines, NASA, FBI, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Russian state outlet RT.com says the list also includes “a worker in an Israeli magistrate’s court” and “someone in a college in Mississippi.” The RT.com article mentions some reasons for skepticism about the Islamic State’s claim that this list includes confidential information obtained by hackers: some of the phone numbers appear to be disconnected, while the purportedly stolen U.S. military passwords appearing on the list are “too weak to pass the guidelines of an official computer system operated by the Pentagon.” The Sydney Morning Herald also found some of the information published on the list to be outdated. “This is the second or third time they’ve claimed that and the first two times I’ll tell you, whatever lists they got were not taken by any cyber attack,” said Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, as quoted by the UK Guardian. The Guardian also cites the opinion of computer security expert Troy Hunt, who said the of the supposedly hacked data: “It’s pretty clear that it’s been aggregated from different sources. It’s been put together on the basis of a .gov or .mil address. Even the passwords, they’re not strong enough to have come from a corporate or government. They’re not even strong enough to have come from an online service – you can’t create a Gmail account, for example, with a password of less than eight characters, and here we’re seeing some passwords of three letters.” The UK Daily Mail notes that Twitter administrators appear to have shut down the Islamic State Hacking Division’s account three times on Wednesday while it attempted to spread its hit list around, leading to the creation of a fourth terrorist account with the message, “Kuffar seem to be raging.”
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ISIS social media accounts are buzzing with a spreadsheet of personal data on employees of the American, British, and Australian governments, including military personnel. The Islamic State claims this list was compiled using data stolen from government systems by its “hacking…
FCA warned about cyber security loophole in one of Britain’s biggest banks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Financial Times (FT) reports that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was warned last July about a cyber security loophole that could give hackers access to the customer accounts of one of Britain’s biggest banks. The loophole, which is similar to…
Lawyers Warned of Email Hacking
The Law Society is warning lawyers to take care over either taking or issuing instructions via email following the hacking of email accounts at a law firm or it’s clients. In a release today, New Zealand Law Society Financial Assurance […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
