Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Joe Trentacosta not only encourages a hack into Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative’s computer network—the co-op foots the bill for it. And other co-ops would do well to follow suit, said Trentacosta, senior vice president and chief information officer at the Hughesville,…
Hacking for Good: The Not-So-Scary Side of the Hacking World
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When you think of hacking, maybe you envision someone malicious in a dark room, breaking into government or corporate websites to expose private information to the world. You might think of common code-focused hacks, hacktivist groups like Anonymous (NSFW), or maybe…
BlackBerry spends $425 million to acquire mobile security firm Good Technology
BlackBerry, already the leader in smartphone security, has purchased mobile security firm Good Technologies for $425 million. The acquisition will allow BlackBerry to improve upon its mobile device management capabilities, good news for CIOs and IT departments in charge of managing a fleet of handsets that include iOS, Android and…
Samsung’s gambit: Is dropping features and being more like Apple really that good of an idea?
What kind of industry is this? When you think about it, it really is ridiculous that an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars is seeing most of that dough go to just one single company — Apple. Yes, yes, Samsung makes money off Android devices, too, but nothing like…
Good News: China Was Hacking and Reading U.S. Government Email When Hillary Was Using Unsecure, Private Server
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Good news, everyone. According to anew report from NBC, Chinese cyber attackers were hacking and reading email belonging to U.S. government officials between 2010 and 2014 (and that’s just what we know about) under the code name “dancing Panda.” Hillary Clinton,…
Head-hacker believes hes one of the ‘Good Guys’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The founder of cyber-security firm Hacking Team has finally spoken out over the attack that saw 400GB of its data dumped on the internet, insisting: “We’re the good guys”.In contrast to many of the private companies performing outsourced aggressive surveillance work…
How a growing cyber attack industry is good news for investors
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Whilst cyber attacks continue to make the news, a new report published by Capital News Desk suggests that around 70 percent of organizations choose to keep their security incidents quiet. It also reveals that around 73 percent of large organizations have been…
Straighten up: the importance of good posture
Photo: Melody DiClemente Straighten up. Stop slouching. Chances are, most people have heard these phrases from others concerned with their sloppy posture. It is common knowledge that the way one holds his or her body transmits a message to those around them of confidence and self-assurance, but did you know…
Good guys who can hack like Internet criminals
China needs to build a world-class “white-hat hacker” team to protect Internet security, according to Zhou Hongyi, chief executive of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Zhou made the assertion at a technology forum on Wednesday in Beijing. “The rapidly expanding Internet […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Hacking for Good
Hacking is often done with malicious intent. But the two MIT alumni who co-founded fast-growing startup Tinfoil Security have shown that hacking can be put to good use: improving security. Through Tinfoil, Michael Borohovski ’09 and Ainsley Braun ’10 have […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
