Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A new ruling in a Texas court declared law enforcement hacking to be search in the definition of the Fourth Amendment, but experts say further clarification is needed. A new federal court ruling has found the FBI’s investigative use of The…
The Fourth Session of the 13th SPA: Tweaks at the Top
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The 4th session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), the DPRK’s rubber-stamp unicameral legislative body, replaced the country’s supreme power organization at its June 29 meeting. While underscoring the ruling party’s control over state and military affairs and further consolidating…
SWIFT hackers nicknamed ‘Lazarus’ hit a fourth bank in Philippines
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hacks targeting the international banking system have claimed a fourth victim: a bank in the Philippines. It’s now clear the global banking system has been under attack by a sophisticated group — dubbed “Lazarus” — since at…
How I Handled Credit Card Fraud (for the Fourth Time)
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Credit and debit card fraud is inevitable today. In just over a year, I’ve experienced four bouts of fraud: one with a debit card and three with credit cards. The experiences changed the way I access my cash and swipe to…
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…
Tech giant IBM’s earnings decline in fourth quarter
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads The tech giant’s revenue fell almost 12% from a year earlier to $24.1bn (£15.9bn) from October to December. Its net income also declined 11% to $5.5bn in the same time period. The company’s earnings were impacted…
Happy Fourth of July from GSN!
Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection Happy Fourth of July from Government Security News. In observance of the holiday, we will not publish our For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com The post Happy Fourth of July from GSN! appeared first on National Cyber Security. View full post…
Visualant wins fourth patent on ChromaID technology
Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Visualant, Inc., a provider of chromatic-based identification and diagnostic solutions, announced on Nov. 12 that it has received its fourth patent on its ChromaID technology that uses an exclusive Spectral Pattern Matching (“SPM”) technique. Homepage position: 10 read more View full post on Government Security News…
Fourth industry-specific CBP compliance center opens in Houston
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Looking to centralize the processing of imported oil and gas infrastructure products, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) opened its fourth industry compliance center in Houston. CBP’s new Petroleum, Natural Gas and Minerals Center of Excellence and Expertise opened on Sept. 17. CBP…
CBP opens fourth industry-specific compliance center in Houston
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Looking to centralize the processing of imported oil and gas infrastructure products, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) opened its fourth industry compliance center in Houston. CBP’s new Petroleum, Natural Gas and Minerals Center of Excellence and Expertise opened on Sept. 17. CBP…