Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker looking for bug bounties has stumbled across a security hole in Vine that allowed him to download the entire source code from a publicly accessible website. He was awarded over $10,000 for the discovery of the blatant internal oversight….
ISIS hacker steals IDs from online retailer’s customers for ‘kill list’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an Illinois internet retailer: Pay two Bitcoins, or about $500 at the time, and the…
Police track down hacker suspects wanted by FBI
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TOURISM police have detained two foreign suspects who allegedly stole the equivalent of billions of baht online from people in many countries. The suspects have been identified as Russian Dmitry Ukrainskiy, 44, and Uzbek Olga Komova, 25. They were arrested at…
Hacker who doxxed dozens and swatted nineteen times gets ONLY one year in Jail
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Strange laws see hacker jailed only for one year for doxxing and swatting while hacking a website to expose a high school rapist gets a longer sentence Strange are the laws of the United States of America. Its judicial system sentenced…
Las Pinas hacker nabbed for credit card fraud, link to drug trade
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested a self-proclaimed international hacker for credit card fraud and his involvement in illegal drugs trade in Las Piñas. NBI’s Anti-Illegal Drugs Division (NBI-AIDD) nabbed Edgar D. Silvano Jr. alias Boy Tattoo last Wednesday in a raid conducted at Unit 404 Hanalie Building…
6,000 strong North Korean hacker army collects $866 million per year
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Experts in South Korea estimate that North Korea’s hacker army numbers more than 6,000 people and earns $866 million US per year through online gambling websites and cyber espionage. Officials at a South Korean information security conference yesterday warned that North…
Second hacker in five weeks comes to the fore, accepts violating celebrity accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans CALIFORNIA, U.S. – Merely weeks after Celebgate hacker Ryan Collins pleaded guilty to illegally breaking into celebrity accounts – a second hacker has now come to the fore, accepting accusations. The second hacker, identified as Edward Majercyk has admitted to the…
Hacker Group OurMine Is Sending a Message: No One Is Safe
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans OurMine has been hacking the Twitter accounts of CEOs and celebrities including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and actor Channing Tatum to prove the point that “nobody is safe.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai is among the latest members of an unhappy club:…
A hacker is advertising millions of stolen health records on the dark web
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker who claims to have obtained more than ten million health records is selling the data to the highest bidder on the dark web. The seller, who goes by the name “thedarkoverlord” began listing the data over the weekend, but…
Hacker outs Hillary’s penchant for jet travel, posh hotels
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The latest data dump from a hacker who breached the Democratic National Committee’s servers shows party leaders have researched Hillary Clinton’s past, creating a dossier that includes her travel on luxurious private jets, the Clinton Foundation’s investments, and her lucrative speech…