Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TORONTO (AP) — The hack of the cheating website Ashley Madison has triggered extortion crimes and led to two unconfirmed reports of suicides, Canadian police said Monday. The company behind Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 Canadian (US $378,000) reward for…
Islamic group hack six government websites in Thailand
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Bangkok: Six official websites of Thai government were hacked on Monday allegedly by an Islamic group from Tunisia which posted pictures of Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar on the webpages. The Islamic group calling itself Fallag Gassrini & Dr Lamouchi,…
What is the ‘Stagefright’ hack? How to defend yourself
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Most hacker-related stories regarding Android are overdone with technopanic, but the newly discovered bug in Android’s multimedia playback tool Stagefright is one that has users more concerned than usual. The exploit in question happens when a hacker sends an MMS message…
‘Ashley Madison’ Hack: White House Employees Used Cheating Site While at Work; Shocking New Details
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Earlier this week, hackers released personal and very intimate details of millions of users of the website Ashley Madison, an infidelity website whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.” The Ashley Madison took place a month ago, with the…
Hack to steal cars with keyless ignition: Volkswagen spent 2 years hiding flaw
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Supposedly you could become a “keyless” car thief capable of stealing Ferraris or other high-end cars with keyless engine start functions such as those in Audi, Fiat, Honda, Volkswagen and Volvo vehicles if only one sentence had not been omitted from…
Here’s every type of data exposed in the Ashley Madison hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Share on Facebook Tweet (233) Share (4) Pin There are plenty of ways to look up whether your information has been exposed in the Ashley Madison hack — all you need is an email address. And while that alone certainly speaks volumes,…
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…
10 years after his epic MySpace hack, Samy Kamkar is trying to turn hackers into heroes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Samy Kamkar is in a dark room in Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas; the room is lit by blue lights and the glow of laptop screens. A DJ is spinning lyric-less music while hackers sit at round tables intermittently coding and…
Tesla’s hack vulnerabilities are being solved
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans CALIFORNIA – Silicon Valley electric automaker Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported on Tuesday that it has delivered a software patch to fight against hackers who have wanted to take charge of the Tesla Model S. Kevin Mahaffey, co-founder and CTO of…
32 Charged with $100 Million Hack of Newswire Services
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged 32 people with involvement in a scheme to hack into the newswire services Marketwired, PR Newswire and Business Wire in order to steal hundreds of corporate earnings announcements before they were publicly…