Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Forget the Grinch, there’s someone else who wants to steal Christmas. Phantom Squad, an online hacker group, has threatened to shut down Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this Christmas by unleashing a series of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks…
Hacker Lexicon: Botnets, the Zombie Computer Armies That Earn Hackers Millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ZOMBIE ARMIES AREN’T just invading movie screens these days. They’re also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, that gives a bot herder remote control…
Pakistani hacker Haxor Hees hacks Ranganathaswamy Temple’s website
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The official website of the famous temple in Srirangam ‘Ranganathaswamy Temple’ was reportedly hacked by the Pakistan hacker Haxor Hees, reported by The Hindu. According to cyber police, some Pakistan based hackers could have hacked the website that was restored by…
Microsoft and US Army Hacker flees overseas, says his case is going no where after 3 years
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Meet Dylan Wheeler. He is the hacker who allegedly hacked into Microsoft, Valve and US Army websites and has been in the Australian law enforcement agencies radar for past 3 years but they have not been able to arrest him. Wheeler, an…
Cyber security firm owner creates Hacker Academy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Steve Barone, the owner and CEO of CBI, got his start in business selling Atari and Commodore home computers in an East Detroit shop in the 1980s. The native Detroiter dropped out of Wayne State University, but found a job he enjoyed and paid…
Brit hardware hacker turns Raspberry Pi Zeros into selfie slayers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Kiwicon Hipsters and selfie addicts beware: infosec man Steve Lord has crafted a tool designed to sever your line of addiction to Instagram by quietly blocking it over public Wi-Fi. The British security bod built the Raspberry Pi Zero-powered “hipster slayer”…
Hacker gets Windows RT 8.1 (WinPE) running on a Lumia 520
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Recently, we reported about Windows Phone Internals, a new tool from Heathcliff. The tool allows users to unlock the bootloader of a few Lumia devices and flash custom ROMs on their Lumia device. The tool currently supports a few Lumia devices, including the Lumia 520, 521,…
Federal Bureau of Investigation seeks hacker after 1.2 billion logins are stolen
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans That hacker, known as “mr.grey”, was identified based on data from a cybsecurity firm that announced in August 2014 that it had determined an alleged Russian crime ring was responsible for stealing information from more than 420,000 websites,THE DOCUMENTS said. Court…
FBI Snitch Regrets For Betraying His Hacker Friends By Co-operating With The FBI
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to reports dated November 23 from Motherboard, a hacker known as “5hm00p” has confessed on Twitter that he served as a FBI informant and was involved in betraying some of his fellow hackers. He claims to have helped the US…
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Releases Tool To Grant Root Access For Custom ROMs
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Microsoft and Nokia have done a great job of making Lumia smartphones difficult to break into at a low-level, but software hacker Heathcliff has just proven that it’s not impossible. He’s just released a great-looking tool called Phone Internals, and it…