Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It is the first time that the social media company has issued such a warning. Twitter emailed users to say that the hackers may have sought their email or IP addresses, or phone numbers, which it recently began collecting. The number…
SECURITY THIS WEEK: THE GOVERNMENT REALLY DOESN’T SEEM TO LIKE ENCRYPTION
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This week, Andy Greenberg and Gwern Branwen uncovered the probable identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto—but then again, he might be a hoaxer. We took a look at malvertising, the hack that can infect your computer even if you don’t click…
Australia government agency hacked, China denies involvement
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Australia’s weather agency computers were hacked, and China could be the culprit, according to government sources. Large-scale cyberattacks hit the Bureau of Meteorology, compromising sensitive systems across Australia’s government, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday. The data breach could “take years…
Calls grow for government back doors to encryption
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The deadly terror attacks in Paris and Beirut have stirred up political tensions in an unlikely locale: Silicon Valley. Terrorists may have take advantage of encrypted messaging services to avoid surveillance, reports said, raising the stakes on an already tenuous issue…
A ‘most private place’: Trust Google with your data above government bodies, says Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Google is the “safest and most private place” to store data, Alphabet Inc. executive chairman Eric Schmidt said this week as he addressed privacy concerns over data collected by Google’s machine- learning mechanisms. Machine learning is a branch of computer science…
Overnight Cybersecurity: Teen dumps apparent hack of government data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The teenaged hackers alleged to be behind the breach of CIA director John Brennan’s personal email account on Thursday released what appeared to be thousands of law enforcement and military personnel’s personal information. The duo, which goes by the name Crackas…
Facebook To Warn Users If Government Is Hacking Their Accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Having been able to take steps in the past to assure that Facebook users’ rights haven’t been compromised, now the social network site is taking a step further by notifying users if a government entity is detected to be hacking or…
How the government scapegoats hackers to justify violating your privacy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The anonymous hacker is quickly replacing the terrorist as the go-to bogeyman in the American cultural imagination. Like Islamist radicals, the kinds of hackers that have brought down the servers of corporate giants and government agencies are mysterious and stealthy, spreading…
Government pressure for Apple to bypass iPhone encryption reduced as owner enters guilty plea
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Jun Feng, a defendant in a criminal case, has entered a guilty plea, removing pressure from a New York court to decide quickly whether Apple is required to aid investigators by bypassing his iPhone 5s passcode. Feng had been indicted on…
The government wants to ban ALL car hacking. Here’s why that’s a bad idea
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A few months back, all the headlines centered on a car hack, but it wasn’t as scary as the sensational headlines made it. In that story, a team of two hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, let Wired reporter Andy Greenberg test drive…
