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Port Authority traffic stop nets ‘credit card fraudsters’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans What started as a routine traffic stop for an uninspected car ended with two men being charged with credit card fraud. Herbert Bax, 29, was pulled over by Port Authority police Thursday evening at Manila Avenue and 14th Street because his…
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…
Israel to Create Cyber Security Authority after Alleged Iranian Hacker Attack
Israel is planning to create a new cyber defense body in order to protect itself against increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks targeting the state’s networks, as announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. “I decided last week to develop a […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
A-T Solutions wins $6.5M contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Vienna, VA-based A-T Solutions, which offers counterterrorism intelligence, technology, training, and mission support services, has been awarded a five-year, firm-fixed price contract by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to conduct its Security Auditing Program. Read More…. View full post on The Cyber…
Technology Authority The Gadgeteer Gives Protect America Security Systems High Reviews
Home security heavyweight Protect America’s safety technology has been featured by celebrated consumer electronics review blog The Gadgeteer. Expert technology reviewers found that Protect America’s Copper Security Package “worked flawlessly” and were “pleasantly surprised” by the SMART Connect smartphone app. Read the article here. The Gadgeteer thoroughly investigated Protect America’s Copper Security Package,…
Coast Guard clears up confusion over ‘authority’ granted to a TWIC card
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Read More…. View full post on The Cyber Wars
Kratos lands $3.5 million contract from unnamed mass transit authority
Top Priority Sector: state_local_security Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a security solutions provider, announced on September 3 that its public safety and security solutions division recently received a $3. Read More…. View full post on The Cyber Wars
DOT anticipates 400 reports annually of ‘close calls’ from Washington transit authority employees
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Image Caption: A WMATA transit accidentoccurred in June 2009 The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to set up a program under which it would expect to receive approximately 400 confidential reports each year from employees of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority about “close…
Microsoft Granted Authority to Take Control of Chinese Domain Hosting Botnet (September 13, 2012)
A US federal court granted Microsoft an ex parte restraining order that allowed it to take control of 3222<dot>org, a Chinese dynamic DNS (DDNS) provider that was hosting the Nitol botnet and a great deal of other malware……. View full post on SANS NewsBites For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com,…