Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans UK carrier Three Mobile was the victim of a hacking scheme that has reportedly left the records of millions of customers exposed. According to multiple UK media reports citing both Three and the National Crime Agency (NCA), hackers gained access The…
Philippines Voter Database Exposed By Hackers
The breach could be the biggest-yet hack of government-held data, according to Trend Micro A breach of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) affecting about 55 million people could be the largest hack of government-held data ever, according to security specialists. Government representatives have downplayed the seriousness of the breach,…
Teen hackers strike again, allegedly gain access to U.S. arrest records database
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A group of teenage hackers going by the name of “Crackas With Attitude” (CWA) are on a rampage, breaking into federal systems to embarrass the U.S. government. Network jobs are hot; salaries expected to rise in 2016 Wireless network engineers, network…
Capital One Analysts Charged for Database Mining for Personal Profit
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged ex-Capital One analysts Bonan and Nan Huang with insider trading after it was found that they were using the company’s consumer database to predict stock prices from retail sales data, according to a formal litigation release…
Hacker seized database from city of Detroit and demanded $800k in bitcoin
Hackers seized a digital database from the city of Detroit earlier this year and then demanded they receive a ransom in bitcoin, Mayor Mike Duggan said this week, but the city balked and ultimately the hijackers were unsuccessful with their […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Hackers’ 12-hour assault on NZ medical database
Police are investigating after attempts were allegedly made to hack a nationwide patient database. In an email obtained by the Otago Daily Times, Dunedin-based clinical adviser for the Southern Primary Health Organisation, Keith Abbott, warned GPs and health organisations about […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
US-Based Nigerian Group Calls For Fingerprint Database, Urges Use Of Technology To Fight Terror
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The US-based Edo United for Homeland Empowerment, a human rights group with headquarters in Boston, has urged the Nigerian government to institute a nation-wide registration to collect the fingerprint of all Nigerian citizens and residents. Such an exercise, the group […]…
Anonymous Says It Hacked the US Government Personnel Database Before China
Chinese hackers made headlines last month for hacking into United States government servers in March, but they weren’t the only ones poking around on those servers: Anonymous claims it was too. In fact, a high-level member of Anonymous says the group hacked […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
CNET hacked by Russian Hackers, database of 1 million+ registered users stolen
A Russian hacking group has target renowned American technology website C|NET, claiming to steal large database containing emails, usernames and encrypted passwords of more than a million registered users. One of the hacker from the group goes with the handle off wOrm told C|NET during a Twitter conversation that he found a…
McAfee charged with stealing database without any payment
No payment to use the data sound pretty unprofessional and especially from the firm like McAfee, which is the subsidiary of Intel. The ODVDB said in a blog that both McAfee and Spanish infosec firm S21Sec took out the data without purchasing it. From the company, such data is only…
