Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Barclays has assembled a team to ‘attack’ its own computer systems to try and find holes before cyber criminals do. Barclays’ red team has been assembled by Troels Oerting, a former head of Europol’s European Crime Center, who joined the bank…
Here’s where you’ll find the microSD card slot on the Moto X Play
Many of you will see the headline and think, “what on Earth is this guy talking about?” But you know what, the Moto X Play is the first phone in some time I’ve actually opened up the in-box documentation to figure something out. Because it’s not obvious where the microSD…
Ashley Madison hack suggests British government workers used official email accounts to find sex
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans British government staff and council workers used their official email accounts to sign up to affairs website Ashley Madison, it has been claimed. Dozens of email addresses linked to top Westminster departments and some of the nation’s biggest local authorities have…
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 division,” although some experts who have reviewed the list say most of it was more likely created using simple Google searches of publicly available data. There are about 1,400 individuals included on the list. The list was accompanied by a message from the “Islamic State Hacking Division,” transcribed by Sky News: O Crusaders, as you continue your aggression towards the Islamic State and your bombing campaign against the Muslims, know that we are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move. We have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands. So wait, we too are waiting. The Sydney Morning Herald criticizes Australian officials for being “caught on their heels” by the hit list, which includes Defense Force employees and a Victorian MP. Even though “Australia’s most senior Islamic State militant, former Melbourne man and terror recruiter Neil Prakash” was posting links to the hit list early Wednesday morning, at least half of the Australians targeted by ISIS said they were unaware of the threat until they were informed by the media… which contacted them using the phone numbers published by the Islamic State. “I’m completely at a loss,” said the aforementioned MP, who at least has access to a security detail assigned to protect elected officials. “What do I do? The police probably know less than you and I.” Defense Force employees on the list said they were in shock no one from the government had warned them. Various agencies of the Australian government declined to discuss the matter. In addition to Prakash – who crowed “Cyber war got em shook!” and “Kill them where you find them and enslave their women” on Twitter – the Herald reports “other prominent militants, including British man Junaid Hussain, who is third on a CIA kill list of Islamic State operatives, also used social media to promote the leak and encourage attacks.” Sky News reports the hit list includes British Foreign Office employees, plus a “local council employee.” Most of the names on the list are American, including personnel from the Air Force, Marines, NASA, FBI, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Russian state outlet RT.com says the list also includes “a worker in an Israeli magistrate’s court” and “someone in a college in Mississippi.” The RT.com article mentions some reasons for skepticism about the Islamic State’s claim that this list includes confidential information obtained by hackers: some of the phone numbers appear to be disconnected, while the purportedly stolen U.S. military passwords appearing on the list are “too weak to pass the guidelines of an official computer system operated by the Pentagon.” The Sydney Morning Herald also found some of the information published on the list to be outdated. “This is the second or third time they’ve claimed that and the first two times I’ll tell you, whatever lists they got were not taken by any cyber attack,” said Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, as quoted by the UK Guardian. The Guardian also cites the opinion of computer security expert Troy Hunt, who said the of the supposedly hacked data: “It’s pretty clear that it’s been aggregated from different sources. It’s been put together on the basis of a .gov or .mil address. Even the passwords, they’re not strong enough to have come from a corporate or government. They’re not even strong enough to have come from an online service – you can’t create a Gmail account, for example, with a password of less than eight characters, and here we’re seeing some passwords of three letters.” The UK Daily Mail notes that Twitter administrators appear to have shut down the Islamic State Hacking Division’s account three times on Wednesday while it attempted to spread its hit list around, leading to the creation of a fourth terrorist account with the message, “Kuffar seem to be raging.”
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…
Find out if your Android device is exposed to MMS attacks using Zimperium’s Stagefright Detector App
Last week, security researchers from Zimperium have reported on a vulnerability in Android’s Stagefright media playback library, one that is thought to affect about 950 million active Android devices. In a nutshell, potential hackers can take control of the affected smartphones by sending a malicious SMS. For more details on…
Hackers score 1 million miles for helping United find security bugs
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Two hackers scored an unusual bounty of one million frequent flyer miles for identifying holes in United Airlines’ security system. That’s enough for each of them to circle the globe five times. Such awards, known as a “bug bounties” are paid…
How to find the best cyber security insurance for your firm
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A robust cyber security insurance policy can be tricky to procure, even for the most meticulous wealth management firms. Interest in cyber insurance has surged over the past year following a number of high-profile hackings, including one announced earlier this month involving…
New Hacker Tool iDict Exploits Simple Passwords: How To Find Out If Your Account Could Be Compromised
If your password is simple — like Password1 or Passw0rd — now’s the time to change it, as a new brute-force hacking tool called iDict made its way around the Internet Friday. iDict exploited a hole in Apple’s security system […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Bay Area Security Firm Hires ‘White Hat Hackers’ To Find Vulnerabilities In Digital Systems
REDWOOD CITY (KPIX 5) — Cyber-crime is big business in the digital age, so a Bay Area security firm has hired a sophisticated group of hackers to break into computer systems. Read More…. For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post on National Cyber…
U of M researchers find traffic lights can be hacked
Have you ever watched a movie where a snarky young computer hacker wreaks havoc with civic infrastructure, and wondered if it could happen in real life? Read More…. For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post on National Cyber Security