Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans China has arrested more than 900 hackers in an online campaign launched in July amid criticism from the US over increasing hacker attacks originating from the Communist country and targeting top American commercial firms. The suspects were involved in 400 cases…
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,…
Identity Theft and Having Credit Card Information Stolen by Hackers Is the Greatest Fear in the Minds of Consumers Highlighting the Need for a Safer Credit Card According to SmartMetric
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Americans worry the most about having their credit card information stolen by hackers or becoming a victim of identity theft. Anxiety over the theft of credit card information and a person’s identity is considerably more than any other serious concern. Americans’…
Ukraine left battered by cyber war as hackers target election
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The night before, a shadowy pro-Moscow hacking collective called CyberBerkut attacked the premises. Its stated goal: to cripple the online system for distributing results and voter turnout throughout election day.SOFTWARE was destroyed. Hard drives were fried. Router settings were undone. Even…
How Heartbleed Bug Exposes Your Passwords to Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Are you safe from the critical bug Heartbleed?? OpenSSL- the encryption technology used by millions of websites to encrypt the communication and is also used to protect our sensitive data such as e-mails, passwords or banking information. But a tiny, but most…
Security Researchers Breach Phishing Server Belonging to Iranian Hackers Rocket Kitten
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Rocket Kitten is a hacking group that first appeared in April 2014 and was unmasked for the first time by FireEye researchers in May 2014. The most damning report on their activity was published this year by a joint effort betweenTREND…
Hackers and Sith Lords Roam Ukraine’s Cyber Badlands
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The taxi driver peers into the rain and shrugs. There’s nothing resembling a government building in this bleak industrial district on the edge of Kiev, just overgrown tram tracks and scrapyards patrolled by dogs. We’re here to meet Colonel Sergiy Demediuk,…
Teen hackers strike again, allegedly gain access to U.S. arrest records database
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A group of teenage hackers going by the name of “Crackas With Attitude” (CWA) are on a rampage, breaking into federal systems to embarrass the U.S. government. Network jobs are hot; salaries expected to rise in 2016 Wireless network engineers, network…
Mentor TalkTalk hackers, don’t criminalise them, says cyberpsychologist
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Teenagers involved in online attacks such as the TalkTalk hack should be mentored rather than criminalised, to ensure society benefits from ‘their incredible skillset’, according to cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken. “As a society, do we really want to criminalise 13, 14 and…
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…