Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Foreign hackers made a vigorous but unsuccessful attempt to disrupt San Diego’s massive computer system when the city hosted the 2016 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in July. “The hackers were trying to make a statement; the attack The post Hackers…
Taiwan’s defence university computers hacked
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TAIPEI: The National Defence University (NDU) in Taiwan confirmed that its computer system had been hacked in July but said that no classified information had been stolen. NDU said its academic network had been hacked, but that only ordinary academic The…
‘Monsoon’ Hackers Reportedly Attacking Innumerable Computers Globally with Spear-Phishing Schemes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Suspected hackers seemingly from India, ever since 2013, have been hijacking innumerable PCs, it is being reported. Understandably, three security agencies have rumbled the gang for the entire range of time; however, the gang until now was regarded as a The…
Schools hacked in international attack should check computers for child porn
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A recent global hacking episode could have seen child pornography deposited on school computers. Thirty-six schools – five in the Waikato – were hacked in a global operation that saw passwords and other entry methods to 70,000 servers sold on the…
Critical Flaws In Symantec Security Tools Expose Millions Of Computers To Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A top level Google security researcher has found a series of critical vulnerabilities in most of Symantec’s enterprise and consumer products, that were, apparently, ridiculously easy to exploit by hackers. Symantec, which patched the eight security flaws discovered said: “Fixes are…
Clinton Campaign Says No Hackers ?Compromised Its Computers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hillary Clintons presidential campaign says theres no sign that hackers have broken into its computer systems, but its well aware that Russian cyber operatives may be trying. ?We continue to have no evidence that HFAs information systems have been compromised, Glen…
MALWARE HITS MANTRALAYA, INFECTS 150-ODD COMPUTERS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Malware wormed its way into Mantralaya over the weekend, as black hat hackers released a virus to infect some 150 computers at the administrative headquarters of the state government. But all the government’s data are safe. The virus, called Locky, a…
Hackers hit county’s computers
Otsego County’s government computers have fallen prey to cyber attackers, the head of the county’s information technologies revealed Monday. “We have seen potential threats multiply by 10 times,” Brian Pokorny, who oversees the county’s inventory of computer networks, told The Daily Star. Some of the spam sent to county computers…
New laws to allow spies to hack into smartphones and computers ‘to be introduced in the coming weeks’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Britain’s spies are about to be given huge new powers that will allow them to look in on people’s phones and computers, according to reports. A revived and re-named version of the hugely-controversial “Snoopers’ Charter” is set to give spies a…
Cyber Security Expert Mikko Hyppönen Worries About Extremists With Computers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber security expert Mikko Hyppönen said he worries about a new group of hackers who are willing to perpetrate the kinds of attacks even cyber criminals wouldn’t consider — extremists. “The Islamic State is the first extremist group that has a credible…
