Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Remember the Jeep hackers? Continuing on their work from last year, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have found a new exploit for the SUV, allowing them to take over the vehicle even while it is moving at high speeds. Last year,…
Iranian Hackers Accessed Millions of Users’ Info on Telegram Messaging App
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers believed to be associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accessed user accounts of the secure messaging app Telegram earlier this year, identifying the phone numbers of millions of Iranians, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The breach was is the…
Bitcoin Price Plunges 20% After Hackers Steal $72 Million
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Prices in bitcoin fell over 20% on Tuesday after a security breach at Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based exchange. Reuters reported that almost 120,000 units of bitcoin, together worth $72 million at the time, had been stolen from online customers. The exchange…
Hackers Have Just Cracked The Internet’s Most Common Security Protocol, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HTTPS is everywhere you look. Most social media sites use it, YouTube uses it, it’s a basic protocol for secure email, and any website that takes a credit card uses it as a bare minimum. And unfortunately, researchers have just breached…
Can Old Hackers Learn New Tricks? A Pioneering Con Evolves
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Kyle Drosdick is fixing a Segway in a curtained-off section of the Pennsylvania Hotel’s mezzanine level, surrounded by folding tables and Rubbermaid storage bins that overflow with computer cables like a snake charmer’s suitcase. “I can’t get this to work. See?…
Jeep Hackers Return With New Tricks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A year after Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek disclosed a major security vulnerability that could allow hackers to remotely hijack your Jeep, the infamous auto hackers are at it again. The duo, who now work at Uber, again teamed up with…
Hackers post porn link on Devon and Cornwall Police Facebook page
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Computer hackers posted a pornographic picture of a woman enjoying herself in a supermarket – on a police social media site. Officers immediately deactivated the Facebook site of Saltash neighbourhood police after it was hacked into and the graphic image was…
Hackers leak over 150 GB of sensitive patient data from Ohio urology clinics
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The US healthcare hacking spree continues as a group of hackers reportedly leaked a massive amount of sensitive patient data and internal documents. The data dump, which reportedly consists of over 100,000 stolen files, includes names, addresses, phone numbers and date…
Taking the fight to hackers has become a test of nerve
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Jonathan Luff and Grace Cassy run Cyber London, which hopes that providing mentoring and funding will help Britain to lead the world in cybersecurity From Donald Trump appearing to invite Russia last week to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails to reports yesterday…
Hackers can access WhatsApp in seconds
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The E-SAFE team launched the Youth Online Safety Campaign with the hashtag, ‘#SafeUpWhatsApp’, informing teens how they can stay safe on social media It takes intruders just 30 seconds to gain access into a smartphone’s instant messaging services such as WhatsApp,…
