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 division,” although some experts who […]
Carphone Warehouse hackers gain access to millions of customer bank details
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have gained access to the personal details of 2.4 million people after cracking into Carphone Warehouse’s systems, the company has admitted. It announced that the IT systems of one of its UK divisions were found to have been breached on Wednesday, having been subjected to […]
Comcast makes it ridiculously easy for hackers to access your email
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Have you read the bestselling book “The Martian”? There’s a movie coming out about it starring Matt Damon. The author of the book just had a nightmare experience when hackers took over his email account. Apparently Comcast made it very easy for them. All the hackers […]
Security flaw in phones gives hackers access
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Researchers at the University of Michigan and California are presenting a paper Friday, saying they have found a new hacking method with a high success rate. It’s called User Interface or UI State Interference, and it gives hackers […] For more information go to […]
Federal agencies investigating how hacker gained access to patient data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The FBI and other federal agencies are continuing to investigate a cyberattack that hacked personal information from 4.5 million U.S. health patients, including those at Spartanburg-based Mary Black Health System. Authorities determined in July that Community Health Systems, Inc. was […] For more information go to […]
CellAntenna announces new high power RF Multiband Remote Unit for use in mobile phone jamming and managed access applications
Top Priority Sector: communications Coral Springs, FL-based CellAntenna Corporation, a provider of solutions to enhance and prohibit cell phone signals, has announced its latest product for jamming and managed access, the High Power Multiband Remote Unit (CA-MBRU-HP) providing 100 Watts per band combined to a single output port. Read More…. For more information go to […]
Quintron brings access control to new level with AccessNsite 7.9.4
Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Santa Monica-based Quintron Systems, a provider of advanced interoperable voice systems and physical access control/intrusion detection systems, has released For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com The post Quintron brings access control to new level with AccessNsite 7.9.4 appeared first on National Cyber Security. View full post […]
Hackers hit more businesses through remote access accounts
Hackers recently broke into payment systems at several northwestern U.S. restaurants and food service firms via a remote access account belonging to one of their vendors, another example of the need for companies to monitor third-party access to their networks. View full post on Computerworld Cybercrime and Hacking News ________________ Other Sites You May Like: […]
Hackers Get Access To The Ground(ctrl)
Sacramento-based ground(ctrl) builds up the social networking websites and other services for the musicians recently began notifying an undisclosed number of users that their personal information may have been exposed when the company’s network was completely hacked. The company CEO Eddie Meehan wrote that in the notification e-mail “Upon learning the access, the unauthorized access were […]
Cops Must Swear Silence to Access Vehicle Tracking System
It’s a well known fact that police divisions around the nation are sending computerized permit plate bookworms to fabricate gigantic databases to recognize the area of vehicles. Yet one organization behind this Orwellian following framework is dead set to stay out of the news. Read More…. For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net […]