US Naval Officer with ‘secret’ clearance held on espionage charges

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A United States Naval Officer has been accused of espionage, falsifying records, and patronizing prostitutes, among other charges that became public following a preliminary hearing last Friday. The US Naval Institute identified the suspect as Taiwanese-born, naturalized American citizen Lieutenant Commander…

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He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums into recruitment hotbeds and propaganda mechanisms. We need a security apparatus in the digital space to address this threat. Hackers are the face of this digital army.” The actor said he is bringing his whole team including scriptwriters of the show to observe and interact with the ethical hacker community. (Also Read: Tabu Has Shown Interest in 24, Says Director ) “From November 22, I will start shooting for 24. It will go on air in 2016. When an actor prepares for a role, we often start to live like the character. Some call it method acting. We meet real life people like the character and try to understand their nuances, their life,” he said. As per the summit’s website, speakers will share details of the espionage mission as well as hold sessions on hacking of cellular networks, medical devices in hospitals, using technical loopholes in them. The consortium claims to have discovered cyber espionage operation under which phones of Indian Army personnel, who had downloaded some mobile application related to news, had been compromised by hackers based in Pakistan. IIC CEO Jiten Jain has said that the findings were handed over to security agencies who promptly acted and sanitised the infected handset early this year.

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums…

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“Darkhotel:” new hacker threat targets traveling executives for corporate espionage

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs announced todaythat for at least the past four years, a group of hacker/spies have been engaged in a campaign of widespread corporate espionage which Kaspersky calls “Darkhotel.” It’s not known exactly who or how many […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…

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University of San Diego under threat of data espionage

San Diego University smells the possible data breach threat. That is why the university administration has informed the existing and old students about it. The university announced this after getting across the fact that someone has illegally entered into the database from some bugged computer in the department. The part…

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Espionage in Spotify but no serious damage

The official blog of the Spotify has asked its users to renew the app’s version to the new one because some unofficial access has been noticed in the company’s data. The company has said that only one account was accessed but none of its personal information, financial information, or the…

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Espionage hacking grows, with more from east Europe.

According to one of the most comprehensive annual studies of computer intrusions, hacking for espionage purposes is sharply increasing, with groups or national governments from Eastern Europe. Spying intrusions traced back in 2013 were blamed on residents of China and other East Asian nations 49 per cent of the time,…

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