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…
Spam email down below 50%, 1st time in a decade
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The level of spam has fallen to less than 50 per cent of the total volume of email, for the first time in more than a decade, according to security firm Symantec. The last time Symantec recorded a similar spam rate…
CVS Shuts Down Its Photo Site After Suspected Hacker Break-In
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans CVS has shut down its online photo service, warning its customers that there may have been a data theft and to call their banks if they get suspicious credit card charges. The drugstore alerted people with a warning on its CVSPhoto.com…
Here are all of the crazy illegal things for sale on the hacker forum the Feds just shut down
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On Wednesday, news broke the the Department of Justice dismantled the storied computer hacking forum Darkode and filed criminal charges against 12 people in the US who were allegedly associated with the website. Darkode, which has been around since 2007, was one of…
Online cyber crime forum taken down by FBI
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A prominent online forum dedicated to products and services used to commit cyber crime has been dismantled following an international law enforcement operation, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. Darkode.com, a site open only to those deemed to have the right…
Facebook tries to hide cyber-crime, takes down obscene screenshot
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Facebook has yet again triggered a debate by taking down the screenshot that was posted by a Bangalore based fitness trainer Kavitha Ravindaran on her FB page. The screenshot was of lewd messages from a guy who was harassing her by…
Crime down after Hampshire police start wearing body cameras
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans That’s the conclusion of researchers at Portsmouth University’s Institute of Criminal Justice Studies. They found that public order and assault crimes dropped by 18 per cent, from just over 1,700 to 1,400 in the year that police on the Isle of…
Ramnit Botnet Crime Ring Taken Down By Europol
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads A major European police operation has taken down a botnet that had been stealing banking data.The operation was co-ordinated by the European Cybercrime Centre at Europol, the European police agency, and also involved a number of technology…
Cracking down on card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads Thieves and credit card hackers are diving through their window of opportunity before it closes, say security experts. As cards loaded with small, encrypted computer chips — EMV payment cards — replace cards with magnetic strips in…
Revenge for Charlie Hebdo: Anonymous vows to bring ISIS, al Qaeda terrorists down to knees
New Delhi: ‘Anonymous’ – the worldwide group of Internet activists or ‘hackstivists’ – has sworn revenge on the attackers behind the massacre at Paris-based magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed. Declaring the initiation of what it calls — #OpCharlieHebdo — the Australian wing of Anonymous has posted…
