Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A university student has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 compensation after he hacked the emails of a garden furniture company and targeted one of its customers. Moshood Olawale Abolade, 26, of Hatchets Lane, Newark, had denied fraud by The…
South Korean Firms Face Attacks Of ‘White’ Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans South Korean firms are under fire for not being careful about computer hackers and losing some data to the foreign companies. Lee Jung-hoon, one of the top “white” hackers in South Korea, was allegedly leaving the Samsung SDS on November The…
How spy tech firms let governments see everything on a smartphone
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As Engadget notes, however, a spokesperson for the Israeli company states that the services of the NSO Group are only available to authorized government bodies. For the past six years, the NSO Group’s main product, a tracking system called Pegasus, The…
VC firms invest $200m in UK tech start-ups after Brexit vote
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Small firms told to be more cyber cautious
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans mall firms should be every bit as wary as their larger counterparts with regards to cyber security, says a panellist at the upcoming Insider Media East Midlands Cybercrime Breakfast. Sean Price, software development director at retail installation experts RDS Group, said…
We hacked the rules so Defense can “get shit done” like tech firms
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Department of Defense’s newly expanded bug bounty was just as much about hacking government culture as it was about finding actual software flaws. Thanks to Defense Digital Service (DDS), the unit that drove the DoD’s month-long Hack the Pentagon bug…
NK hackers increasingly attacking private firms
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans North Korean hackers are increasing their attacks on South Korean private companies. Pyongyang’s latest attacks on the computer networks of KT, Hanjin Group and SK Group shows that private firms have lax cybersecurity overall compared to the government and public organizations,…
CIA is investing in firms that specialize in sifting through social media posts
The Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm is investing in companies that develop artificial intelligence to sift through enormous numbers of social media postings and decipher patterns, according to a report. A document obtained by The Intercept indicates that In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, has made unpublicized investments in…
Firm’s founder says that Panama Papers leak was a hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans However it is not surprising more than 11.5 million documents have been leaked including the financial arrangements of prominent figures, including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers of Britain and Pakistan and Chinese President Xi Jinping,…
Top-ranked workplace among small firms
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Phishing. Ransomware. CEO fraud. These are the cybersecurity scams awash in the world start-up company KnowBe4 was created to defend against. Its business — providing security awareness training to banks, businesses and organizations — is booming as hacker attacks continue to…