Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TalkTalk was a company born out of the need for diversification in a market operated largely by a monopoly. In late 2002, Sir Charles Dunstone’s Carphone Warehouse bought a small telecoms business to give it access to BT’s switching network. That…
Obama nominates new OPM director after hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans President Barack Obama has tapped a new leader for the Office of Personnel Management, the federal agency beset by questions over its handling of a massive hack on personal information earlier this year. The White House said Tuesday that Obama was…
JPMorgan’s 2014 Hack Tied to Largest Cyber Breach Ever
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. described a vast, multi-year criminal enterprise centering on hacks of at least nine big financial and publishing firms and the theft of information on 100 million of their customers that fueled a web of stock manipulation, credit-card fraud and illegal…
TalkTalk hack was just friends having a laugh: Cyber-criminals who witnessed data breach said there were no criminal mastermind behind attack… and they just did it
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have claimed ‘at least 25’ cyber-criminals had access to TalkTalk customers’ personal information following the attack on the company. Four people who claim to have witnessed the attack unfolding, including one who said they were involved, told Channel 4 News…
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…
Web Summit: TalkTalk hack ‘tip of a tiny iceberg’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A panel of cybersecurity experts at Wednesday’s Web Summit warned that recent hacker attacks such as those of Ashley Madison and TalkTalk are “the tip of a teeny, tiny iceberg” and that the cyber equivalent of 9/11 could happen and is…
New laws to allow spies to hack into smartphones and computers ‘to be introduced in the coming weeks’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Britain’s spies are about to be given huge new powers that will allow them to look in on people’s phones and computers, according to reports. A revived and re-named version of the hugely-controversial “Snoopers’ Charter” is set to give spies a…
TalkTalk reveals 1.2million customer email and phone numbers along with 21,000 bank details were stolen in hack – as police arrest another teenager over cyber attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The data hacked in the TalkTalk cyber attack ‘is significantly less than suspected’ with fewer than 21,000 bank details accessed, the company has said. TalkTalk today revealed that 1.2 million customer email addresses, names and phone numbers were accessed, along with…
Talktalk hack could expose customers’ bank details
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TalkTalk’s chief executive has apologised to customers after a “significant and sustained cyber attack” on its website left millions of people potentially at risk of having had theircredit card and bank details stolen . Police are investigating the hack amid speculation…
TalkTalk hack: Family of 15-year-old alleged hacker ‘feel like prisoners in their homes’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The family of a 15-year-old alleged hacker accused of involvement in a huge cyber attack on TalkTalk feel like prisoners in their homes, it was claimed yesterday. The video-game loving boy was arrested in connection with one of the largest cyber…