Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans During the annual Def Con event this past Saturday in Las Vegas, carmaker Tesla recruited hackers in the event in an effort to protect its vehicles from possible cyber-attacks. This news comes after the exposure of how vulnerable to hacking automobiles…
I Watched Hackers Pull Off A Real Life Ocean’s 11 Heist
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The scene was set: a surveillance camera, a safe full of money in a Las Vegas casino, a pair of thieves with lock picking tools and a laptop. I watched in awe as the skinny geeks clipped wires and rewired the…
US hackers busily engaged in cyber espionage: American foreign policy analyst
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An American foreign policy analyst says cyber espionage, cyber hacking is a very lively field of modern governments, and that US hackers are also busily engaged in such activities. James George Jatras, a former US diplomat and adviser to the Senate…
News from DEF CON 23: fake deaths, DHS and Tesla court hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans DEF CON wraps up its 23rd year in Las Vegas today, and the first wave of news reports show the notorious hacker conference’s non-technical and sensational talks grabbing the first round of headlines. As closing ceremonies wrap up, media reports about…
Carphone Warehouse hackers gain access to millions of customer bank details
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have gained access to the personal details of 2.4 million people after cracking into Carphone Warehouse’s systems, the company has admitted. It announced that the IT systems of one of its UK divisions were found to have been breached on…
Hackers broadcast porn on TV screens at Brazil bus depot
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans SAO PAULO (AFP) – Hackers infiltrated the travel information video screens at a Brazilian bus station and replaced arrival and departure times with hard-core porn. The sex footage ran for 15 minutes Friday evening at the Boqueirao station in the southern…
Automakers trying to prevent hackers from commandeering cars
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans DETROIT (AP) – When researchers at two West Coast universities took control of a General Motors car through cellular and Bluetooth connections in 2010, they startled the auto industry by exposing a glaring security gap. Five years later, two friendly hackers…
Comcast makes it ridiculously easy for hackers to access your email
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Have you read the bestselling book “The Martian”? There’s a movie coming out about it starring Matt Damon. The author of the book just had a nightmare experience when hackers took over his email account. Apparently Comcast made it very easy…
Hackers Could “Harvest” Fingerprints From Android Phones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As fingerprint authentication becomes more commonplace, two hackers have claimed that they have figured out how a compromised Android could be used to collect fingerprint data from unsuspecting users. ZD Net reports that FireEye researchers Tao Wei and Yulong Zhang are…
Hackers can remotely lift fingerprints from Android devices, but not Apple’s Touch ID
The annual Black Hat Security Conference offers a chance for hackers and security gurus to gather and share their latest finds. With a number of new smartphones having been announced over the past week and more on the way very shortly, Black Hat might have slipped under your radar. For…