Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Toronto police have appealed to the ‘white hat’ hacker community for help in tracking down Impact Team, the perpetrators of the Ashley Madison data breach, after revealing two people may have taken their own lives due to the leaks. “Team Impact,”…
How do hackers actually get paid for their services?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber-crooks don’t receive 1099 forms or pay taxes like other freelancers. Instead they’re paid in clever and often nefarious ways. The successful hacker is the one whose real name is never known, who shuns the limelight, and stays off the radar….
Chinese hackers targeting Sino-India border dispute: Report
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese hackers are believed to be snooping on information related to the Sino-India border dispute and Tibetan exile groups in India since 2012, a US-based cyber-security firm has claimed. The hackers were detected in April ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
The trick hackers are using on tourists
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans THESE days, a Wi-Fi connection is considered a travel necessity up there with a comfy pillow from a hotel. But did you know that some of the most popular tourist spots around the world pose a risk to your security if…
New on Video: Cyber-Silliness in Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Man oh man, the Internet was scary to a lot of people back in the 1990s. Kids these days (kids these days!) who’ve grown up with it probably can’t grasp the fear that the mainstream, particularly the Baby Boomers, had of…
Keeping Your WordPress Site Safe From Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Being popular isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A tree full of fruits is sure to get its share of stones thrown at it. Take Microsoft Windows for example. The operating system is on a gazillion computers so now Windows…
Names of 37 million cheating spouses are leaked online: Hackers dump huge data file revealing clients of adultery website Ashley Madison – including bankers, UN and Vatican staff
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers today outed millions of cheating spouses using the Ashley Madison infidelity website by publishing all their personal details and sexual fantasies online. The names, ages, addresses, phone numbers and credit card details of up to 37million users including 1.2million in…
6 Things Washington Doesn’t Get About Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For a forthcoming book (shameless plug: preorder now!), I spent the last several years interviewing over 100 security researchers, usually self-described as “hackers,” attending security conferences, and watching how these professionals uncovered vulnerabilities and shortcomings in software, computer systems, and everyday…
Hackers Dump Data Online from Infidelity Website
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers dumped online personal details of more than a million users of infidelity websiteAshleyMadison, tech websites reported on Tuesday, the latest high-profile cyber attack that threatens to wreak strife in relationships across the globe. After threatening to release salacious details on…
10 years after his epic MySpace hack, Samy Kamkar is trying to turn hackers into heroes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Samy Kamkar is in a dark room in Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas; the room is lit by blue lights and the glow of laptop screens. A DJ is spinning lyric-less music while hackers sit at round tables intermittently coding and…