Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans espite the seemingly endless hack attacks, and a recent Pew study showing that Americans feel powerless to protect themselves against intrusions on their online privacy, few Americans do much in the way of adopting privacy enhancing measures. But one privacy advocate…
Connected cars: Are tomorrow’s drivers at risk?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to enhance the way we engage with devices around the home and we are now beginning to see the growth of this technology reach our driveways. Specifically, our automobiles. According to IHS Automotive, within five…
The cyber war no one talks about
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For years, American cyber-warfare experts have argued that China and the U.S. were in a sort of Cold War standoff: That each country operated on the assumption that its opponent’s computer wizards already had infiltrated its systems and had deposited terrible…
Study: Cyber risks overshadow corporate board security confidence
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Directors of U.S. businesses are pretty confident they can understand corporate security risks, but corporate security pros are not so sure their boards really get it, according to a survey of both board members and C-level security executives. While 70% of…
SMB Cyber Defense: The Essential Building Blocks to Protect Infrastructure
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber criminals are becoming far more sophisticated as technology evolves and new and better tools become available. Another disturbing trend is that attacks are increasingly more targeted and aimed specifically at smaller organizations. In fact, the threat landscape changes and evolves…
MacKeeper helps cyber crims clean up
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A newly-discovered security flaw in MacKeeper, the OS clean-up utility, is providing cybercriminals a backdoor to diffuse a new strain of Mac malware known as OSX/Agent-ANTU. BAE’s cyber security unit said that MacKeeper, which has been downloaded over 20 million times,…
Adobe FINALLY patches critical Flash Player flaw exploited by Chinese cyber-espionage group
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Adobe has belatedly rushed out patches for a zero-day security flaw in its widely used Flash Player that had been exploited by a cyber-espionage group based in China for weeks, according to security services specialist FireEye. The group, identified as APT3…
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…
