Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Check Point, a cybersecurity software maker, estimates that at least 10 million Android devices have been infected by the HummingBad malware since it was seen last February. The malware generates US$300,000 a month of ad revenue for the hacking group. The…
Twitter says governments are hacking its users – are you affected?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Twitter is now warning users if their accounts are being targeted by government hacking attempts. Several users have reported receiving notices from Twitter revealing attacks on their accounts, as reported by the Telegraph. According to the report, a number of the…
Billions of Smartphone Users affected by Heartbleed Vulnerability
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Heartbleed has left a worst impression worldwide affecting millions of websites and is also supposed to put millions of Smartphones and tablets users at a great risk.Heartbleed is a critical bug (CVE-2014-0160) in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, that actually…
These are the 85 iOS apps affected by the XcodeGhost malware
Over the weekend, we told you about the malicious version of XcodeGhost that spread malware to 39 App Store apps. A rogue version of Xcode was downloaded from Baidu by iOS/OX S developers that should have picked up the latest version of it directly from Apple. Now, the number of…
Users complain about bugs and lags in iOS 9, all iPhone generations apparently affected
Multiple iOS 9.0 users rocking various iPads and iPhones recently took to various online mediums to voice their discontent at the fact that the iOS 9 update brought along multiple bugs and generally caused their devices to succumb to constant lags. As all iPhone and iPad owners probably know by…
US: More Than 21 Million Affected by Government Data Breach
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers stole Social Security numbers, health histories and other highly sensitive data from more than 21 million people, the Obama administration said Thursday, acknowledging that the breach of U.S. government computer systems was far more severe than previously disclosed. The scope of the…
Harrisburg fails to report 2014 crime statistics; other agencies affected by server malfunction
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HARRISBURG- For the second year in a row, Harrisburg’s crime statistics might not be included in the FBI’s annual analysis. The capital city failed to report a single month’s worth of crime data last year. The city was supposed to submit…
A regular venture is affected by the 10,000 cyber security daily
Almost a normal device in any normal company comes across the 10,000 security threats in an average day. This report is issues by the Damballa in Q1 of its States of Infections Report. Whereas, the big and vigorous companies faces around 150,000 attacks but these attacks are not easy to…
CloudFlare and OpenDNS Join Forces to Help Internet Users Affected by DNSChanger Malware
SAN FRANCISCO, CA– – CloudFlare and OpenDNS today announce they are joining forces to aid more than a half-million Internet users still connecting to the DNS servers formerly used by a malicious malware … View full … View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Global Payments claims fewer than 1.5m cards affected in data breach
Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been “exported” as a result of an unauthorised access into its processing system. Visa and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach that could involve…
