Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Samy Kamkar is in a dark room in Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas; the room is lit by blue lights and the glow of laptop screens. A DJ is spinning lyric-less music while hackers sit at round tables intermittently coding and…
Security at SC beefed up after email threat
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans New Delhi: Security has been beefed up at the Supreme Court after it received an email threat to blow it up in retaliation for the execution of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon. “The threat mail was received on the court’s…
2 Men Charged With Credit Card Fraud After Stealing Almost $5.5K
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two men have been charged with identify theft and fraud after using fraudulent credit cards in nine metro area cities. Josiel Torano, 25, and Magdiel Ricoarango, 26, have been charged with one count of identity theft over $35,000…
Chinese hack of US national security details revealed days after Russian hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The ongoing saga of successful foreign hack attacks on government databases continued Monday with news of another break-in allegedly perpetrated by China. Just days after the reported spear-phishing attack on the Pentagon’s joint staff email system, which exposed some 4,000 civilian…
Dems, GOP senators push cyber bill for Homeland after breach
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A bipartisan group of senators is pushing to strengthen the authority of the Homeland Security Department to thwartcyberattackson government networks and websites after a massive government data breach. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has spearheaded cyber legislation in the…
CVS Shuts Down Its Photo Site After Suspected Hacker Break-In
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans CVS has shut down its online photo service, warning its customers that there may have been a data theft and to call their banks if they get suspicious credit card charges. The drugstore alerted people with a warning on its CVSPhoto.com…
Cyber criminals are most likely to go after your sales staff
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans UK sales staff are the most likely to suffer a cyber attack, according to a new report from Intel Security, cited by Computer Business Review. Their frequent online contact with non-staff members makes companies’ sales teams more vulnerable to online attacks…
Cyber frauds increased after growth in mobile banking, NEFT and RTGS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The number of cyber frauds in India has spiked as more people start using mobile banking, NEFT and RTGS, a recent study by PwC and ASSOCHAM states. “Whether it’s financial transactions, customer experience, marketing of new products or channel distribution, technology…
Polish Airline Cancels Flights After Hacker Attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Poland’s LOT airline has been forced to cancel around 10 foreign and domestic flights after hackers attacked its computers. Airline spokesman Adrian Kubicki said the hacker attack temporarily paralyzed LOT’s computers at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport on Sunday, disrupting the processing…
After employee hack, the White House has failed to report on its own cyber defenses, senators say
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans With the Chinese hack of employee records underscoring weaknesses in federal computer security, two senior GOP senators say the White House has failed to tell Congress what it’s doing to protect its own networks from intruders. In a letter to President Obama,…