Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A teenage hacker from Solihull who brought down the FBI and Home Office websites from his bedroom has said that he “honestly regrets” his actions. Charlton Floate, 19, used his internet expertise to target the US and British government sites –…
Hacker from El Salvador is an FBI Most-Wanted Cyber Criminal
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Salvadoran citizen is on the list of the 10 cybercriminals most wanted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The fugitive, identified as Carlos Enrique Perez Melara, 35, is charged with hacking the private communications of hundreds and even thousands…
Teenage hacker “regrets” cyber attack on the FBI and Home Office
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A teenage hacker says that he “honestly regrets” a cyber attack that brought down the websites of both the FBI and Home Office. Charlton Floate sat in his bedroom as he hacked in to the sites – bringing the FBI site…
Hacker jailed for eight months after attacking police, council, charity and porn websites
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A jobless computer hacker was jailed today for eight months after launching a mass cyber attack on The Met Police, Tory Party and British Airways websites – from his bedroom in his parents’ house. Ian Sullivan, 51, flooded the internet servers…
WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO ATTEND “HACKER HIGH” WHEN THEY FILMED “HACKERS” AT MY HIGH SCHOOL
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It was 1995, and I was a 14-year-old freshman at Stuyvesant High School. My classmates, back in those glorious 1990s years when Gopher and Mosaic were high tech, had hacked into email accounts at Columbia, Bucknell, and Princeton. Students at Stuyvesant,…
Swedbank website down in hacker attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Swedbank’s Swedish website has stopped working after a hacker attack and cannot be reached by its customers, a spokesman said on Friday. The attack means that customers cannot conduct online transactions or contact the bank through the Internet although mobile applications…
Meet 9-year-old hacker, CEO who spoke at Ground Zero Summit
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Meet Reuben Paul from Austin, Texas who is an accomplished hacker, app developer, cyber security expert and the CEO of Prudent Games. What’s more is the fact that he’s just 9 years old. He had delivered his keynote last year on…
Undercover cop answers Craigslist ad for a hacker
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A US man from the state of Pennsylvania – who, evidently, doesn’t quite understand that police use computers and has never heard of Tor – is looking at 2 to 4 years in jail for trying to recruit a cybercriminal to…
He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums into recruitment hotbeds and propaganda mechanisms. We need a security apparatus in the digital space to address this threat. Hackers are the face of this digital army.” The actor said he is bringing his whole team including scriptwriters of the show to observe and interact with the ethical hacker community. (Also Read: Tabu Has Shown Interest in 24, Says Director ) “From November 22, I will start shooting for 24. It will go on air in 2016. When an actor prepares for a role, we often start to live like the character. Some call it method acting. We meet real life people like the character and try to understand their nuances, their life,” he said. As per the summit’s website, speakers will share details of the espionage mission as well as hold sessions on hacking of cellular networks, medical devices in hospitals, using technical loopholes in them. The consortium claims to have discovered cyber espionage operation under which phones of Indian Army personnel, who had downloaded some mobile application related to news, had been compromised by hackers based in Pakistan. IIC CEO Jiten Jain has said that the findings were handed over to security agencies who promptly acted and sanitised the infected handset early this year.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums…
Man hires ‘court hacker’ on Craigslist … who turned out to be a cop
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Pennsylvanian bloke will spend two to four years behind bars for trying to hire a hacker on Craigslist to erase his court fines. Zachary Landis, 27, admitted to Lancaster County Court he tried to hire someone to illegally access court…