Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Cheyenne Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man and woman who are suspects in a vehicle burglary and credit card fraud case that occurred between August 20-22. The two were caught on surveillance video walking The…
He Worked for Bronx Tenants, Until His Past Caught Up
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The building superintendent’s name was Vincent Bostick, and he was good with his hands, reliable and quick on snowy days to get outside with a shovel. But he did have one quirk. “He put all these cameras up,” Michael Garcia, a…
The Facebook hacker who caught a Facebook hacker
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Here’s a fascinating story about a hacker who caught a hacker. (We’re using the word hacker in a legally non-committal sense here: someone with technical skills who finds ways to do things with a computer system that weren’t supposed to happen.)…
Women in Kuwait caught promoting their prostitution online
Two Romanian women arrested in Kuwait after they were caught soliciting money for sex will be deported. The two women had recently entered the northern Arabian Gulf country on tourist visas and stayed in a hotel in the vibrant Salmiya area in the capital Kuwait City, a security source said….
Frank Abagnale Sounds the Identity Theft Alarm: Don’t Get Caught, If You Can
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Protecting consumers against identity theft and hacking by cybercriminals into their financial and medical records should be a higher priority by the government, said Frank Abagnale, the infamous con artist who has been an FBI consultant for nearly…
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…
Project Ara caught in the Alphabet soup?
The Project Ara modular phone is the most well-known legacy remaining of Motorola’s time spent as a Google subsidiary. Google ended up with Motorola’s massive patent portfolio as well. We don’t know if the pressure of the Google restructuring is getting to the Project Ara crew, but the unit’s Twitter…
Accused British hacker caught, faces charges in N.J.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An accused hacker was arrested in England Wednesday and is facing extradition to New Jersey where he’s facing charges of breaking into the computer systems of NASA and other federal agencies to steal reams of confidential data, federal prosecutors say. Lauri…
More criminals being caught due to cloud technology
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HOUSTON – When Randy Schaefer’s iPad was stolen he never thought he’d see it again. The device, along with $5,000 cash were stolen when his truck was broken into while parked on the street in front of his home in his…
Celebrity Hacker Could Face Lengthy Prison Sentence If Caught
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The person who leaked naked photos of about 100 female celebrities this past weekend, including the actress Jennifer Lawrence and the model Kate Upton, could face an array of criminal charges and dozens of years in prison if caught. Read […]…