Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans 0 0 Comments (0) Authors Sahil Baghla (left) and Arun Soni in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. IMAGINE you are a newlywed and on your honeymoon, or a single girl traveller who fears that the hotel room might have a hidden…
Three ways to protect against credit card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans With the global costs of card fraud reaching tens of billions of dollars per year, protecting your credit card data is more important than ever. Although no solution is foolproof, technology can help keep your personal data from getting into the wrong hands. The more hurdles…
Latest Swarm update brings back leaderboards so you can compete against friends
Swarm is a neat app that lets you see what friends (if any) are nearby so you can easily arrange to meet up with them. The app has just been updated and we’re looking at the return of the leaderboards. Do you happen to be quite the competitive soul? If…
Fight against government spying war
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data collection remains in limbo even as the legal landscape has changed and more private companies have been suspected of collecting data. Represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), First Unitarian Church v….
SMEs ‘need to protect themselves against rising identity theft’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa need to put robust processes and systems in place if they are… For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com The post SMEs ‘need to protect themselves against rising identity…
Edward Snowden Calls on UK Students to Rise Up Against Spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed the extent and methods of mass surveillance used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s GCHQ spy agency, has called on students to oppose plans to increase surveillance powers. Snowden was speaking…
Chaos Communication Camp: Cyber pirates gather in Berlin for smart drugs, virtual sex, and the fight against global mass surveillance
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Quite how I ended up in a marquee an hour north of Berlin being sketched, stark b*****k naked, by some of the world’s leading digital activists and hackers is not entirely clear. There was a party at a London embassy, a…
Samsung plans on going all the way to the Supreme Court with its patent fight against Apple
Samsung filed legal papers on Wednesday to have its patent battle against Apple heard by the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court. Recently, the Korean manufacturer had a request to have its appeal heard by the entire U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected. Previously, a three-judge…
U.S. And India To Join Forces Against Cybercrime
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Last week, representatives from both the United States and India met to discuss how the two nations could work together to fight back against the growing community of cyber criminals. The meeting, called the U.S.-India Cyber Security Dialogue, gave both sides…
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…