TalkTalk fined a record £400,000 for security failings which allowed 156,000 customers’ data to be accessed ‘with ease’

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TalkTalk has been fined a record £400,000 for security failings over a cyber attack which allowed customer data to be accessed ‘with ease’, a watchdog announced. The Information Commissioner’s Office said the attack last October could have been prevented if The…

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The frightening ease of voicemail hacking

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “Hi, Dell. This is Andrew at EFF. We got disconnected. Oh, I think you might be calling me.” I was playing phone tag with Andrew Crocker, a law fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, during an ongoing conversation aboutnational security letters….

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Hacker busted for cracking private, government networks did so with ease

MANCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — Cocaine dealers, bank robbers and carjackers converge at Manchester Federal Prison in rural Kentucky — and then there is Jeremy Hammond, a tousle-haired and talented hacker whose nimble fingers have clicked and tapped their way into […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…

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