Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A spokesman for the Russian Federal Security Service toldSCMagazineUK.com that Russian hacker groups Energetic Bear, Dragonfly and some others are considering engaging their activities against selected Western countries. The current financial crisis in Russia, seen locally as having been caused by Western…
Credit Card Hackers Figured Out How To Break Chip-And-PIN Security Years Ago
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber criminals have already figured out a way to hack the new chip-and-PIN credit card system currently being introduced at businesses throughout the United States. Five French citizens have been convicted of manipulating vulnerabilities in the system with a card-switching technique…
How the government scapegoats hackers to justify violating your privacy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The anonymous hacker is quickly replacing the terrorist as the go-to bogeyman in the American cultural imagination. Like Islamist radicals, the kinds of hackers that have brought down the servers of corporate giants and government agencies are mysterious and stealthy, spreading…
HACKERS: CAN YOU PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS FROM ‘THE CRIME OF OUR ERA’?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TalkTalk may be facing its biggest challenge to date. Not only does chief executive Dido Harding face tough decisions on how to maintain and maximise the internet service provider’s profit margins (it’s up against larger rivals BT and Virgin), but TalkTalk…
Italian hackers ‘assist’ DISS, Police spy on you – Wikileaks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Secret email conversations from Wikileaks exposed how the Botswana Police Service and the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) through a local consultant have been in contact with an Italian spyware designing firm to purchase surveillance software that steals data,…
Cyber hackers often target equipment, systems that are never checked
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber attacks are increasing every day and can emanate from sources that the information technology department never checks, an expert said Tuesday. Ryan Vela, Dallas-based regional director of North America reactive and proactive cyber security services at Fidelis Cybersecurity, cited data…
South Korea’s defence ministry to welcome tech-savvy ‘white-hat’ hackers team to fight cyber warfare
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The South Korean defence ministry has undertaken a new initiative to fight against cyber-attacks, which are prominent in the 21st century, by conducting a “White Hat” hacking competition to select the best hackers across the nation. First announced in August by the Defence…
For Cybersecurity, US Government Seeks a Few Good Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WASHINGTON: Alejandro Mayorkas, a high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official, opened a speech over the summer in Las Vegas before hundreds of hackers with a dare. “I challenge you all to make my phone ring during my remarks,” he said, brandishing…
Hackers Stole 200,000 South Korean Credit Cards Data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers stole the personal information of about 200,000 South Korean credit card users, making some fake credit cards and rack up fraudulent charges about $115,400. The Financial Supervisory Service said that several suspects had late last year hacked into firm card…
South Korea seeks hackers to defend against North Korean cyberattacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A new army of South Korean soldiers was intently focused on fending off the enemy attack. Where were they coming from? What tactics were they using? And how best to neutralize them? The attackers were probably North Korean – that’s a…