Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans How do you think the US would find out about a state-sponsored hack from Iran? SophisticatedSECURITY SOFTWARE? Surveillance? Nope — Facebook. According to the New York Times, State Department officials were tipped off about an Iranian hacking campaign thanks to Facebook…
OpenSSL vulnerability allows hackers to read 64k of memory on target server
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A potentially critical security vulnerability in OpenSSL has been discovered that allows an attacker to read up to 64kilobytes of memory from the server running a vulnerable OpenSSL version. As a normal user, you may not aware what is OpenSSL. It…
Russian CyberBerkut Hackers Link ISIS To Ukrainian Weapons Negotiations With Qatar: Russian Media
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Russian hacking group claimed Saturday that the Ukrainian military indirectly supplied weapons to the Islamic State group. It’s the latest flare-up between CyberBerkut, a Kremlin-backed group of cybercriminals, and the pro-Western government in Ukraine, which has denied knowledge of how its…
‘5,500 Twitter accounts down’: Hackers take on IS in cyber battle
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The hacker group Anonymous claimed on Tuesday to have taken out 5,500 Twitter accounts linked to the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. The loosely organised hacking collective made the claim in a tweet one day afterlaunching…
Cybersecurity expert: Hackers would ‘rather go after Amazon than Microsoft’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As Microsoft moves more of its business into the cloud, the success of the company relies on its ability to protect an increasing amount of customer data from cybersecurity threats. The Redmond, Washington-based company’s chief executive Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced…
Hackers declare war on ISIS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Underground “hacktivist” group Anonymous has renewed its declaration of war on the Islamic State, vowing to target the terrorist organization wherever it exists on the Web for the deadly attacks in Paris. And the group is already claiming tens of thousands…
ISIS Hackers Love To Threaten The US, But Don’t Expect Them To Turn Off the Lights Quite Yet
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Islamic State group wants the world to believe it’s not just a terrorist group but a dangerous hacking collective capable of infiltrating critical digital networks in the U.S. and elsewhere. Don’t believe the hype, at least not yet. Hackers who claim to…
Military Smartphones Are a Hacker’s Dream
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans You would think the nation’s military would move with lightning speed to patch cell phones vulnerable to hackers, particularly after recent disclosures thatChinese hackers harvested the personal information of 21.5 million U.S. government employees and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard broke into the…
US official: Charges possible if Chinese hackers keep it up
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The U.S. could consider criminal charges or sanctions against China if the U.S. determines hackers there are violating an agreement not to conduct economic cyber espionage on American industry, a senior Justice Department official said Tuesday. The remarks by John Carlin,…
JPMorgan’s accused hackers had vast $100 million operation
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Justice Department announced Tuesday that three men indicted for separate crimes in July are behind the enormous JPMorgan hack. The three men allegedly stole 83 million customers’ personal information in that data breach. The JPMorgan hack was “the largest theft…