Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The ordeal suffered by Robert and Susan Turner is a terrible portent for TalkTalk customers whose data was stolen in last week’s cyber attack. For a year, the Turners lived a nightmare. Every evening their phones would start ringing at 25-minute…
‘Stoner hacked CIA Director AND Homeland Security Secretary’: Student leaks private information and claims to have accessed top-secret emails and voicemails
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The FBI is investigating claims two of the highest-ranking national security officials in the US have had their personal emails hacked by a ‘dope smoking’ student hacker. Federal agents are probing reports that the personal accounts of CIA Director John Brennan…
Stoner high school kid claims to have hacked CIA Director’s email account
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The CIA Director had an AOL account where he allegedly stored highly sensitive information of his own, of other top American intelligence officials and of the CIA’s. The personal account came to light after a hacker took it over and started…
Car Contagion: Yes they can get malware or hacked
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Anyone remember the good old days when we get computer viruses the old fashioned way? It goes like this. Someone inserts an infected floppy disk, probably a virus-infected operating system or program disk in a drive, the virus loads into memory…
N.Y. Times: Samsung subsidiary Loop Pay, part of Samsung Pay, hacked by Chinese group
One of the advantages of Samsung Pay is that the mobile payment service works not only with retailers who use NFC wireless POS systems, but it also works with every retailer that swipes a credit card to ring up a transaction. That is due to the magnetic secure transmission used…
T-Mobile partner gets hacked, hands over the personal data of 15 million T-Mobile subscribers
T-Mobile has just announced that Experian, the company that processes its credit applications, was hacked. According to preliminary estimates from both companies, it looks like the hackers gained access to the personal data of about 15 million T-Mobile subscribers. T-Mobile and Experian said that the hack affects new T-Mobile applicants…
HOW TO AVOID GETTING HACKED AT THE ATM
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans We’ve heard the warnings for years now to avoid sketchy ATMs, yet folks continue to withdraw from hacked ATMs and later watch helplessly as money drains from their accounts. Thanks in part to slow adoption of EMV chip smart cards in…
China, Russia Targeting US Spies Via Hacked Computer Databases: Report
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Spy services in China and Russia, among others, are collecting and scrutinizing hacked United States computer databases to target American intelligence agents and officers. Foreign spies have penetrated government websites and emails, social media accounts and massive data troves containing personal…
China and Russia are using hacked data to target U.S. spies, officials say
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Foreign spy services, especially in China and Russia, are aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer databases — including security clearance applications, airline records and medical insurance forms — to identify U.S. intelligence officers and agents, U.S. officials said. At least…
KSHEC website hacked; restored later
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On Friday morning, those who tried logging into Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) website were greeted by an unusual message. A caricature holding a glass with red liquid — as if offering a toast — was mocking at the visitors…