Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Wi-Fi in the sky isn’t a vague thought any more. As in-flight airplane Wi-Fi becomes more of a commonplace, the risk of cyber-criminals targeting unsuspecting travellers is even more. With so many passengers crammed up into one system, it is no…
Hacking Team falls prey to hack attack. Why hackers get hacked.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An Italian cybersecurity firm was hacked on a grand scale late on Sunday evening. While the full extent of the hack is not yet known, the company has seen over 400 gigabytes of company information shared online over the weekend. The…
Take these 6 security measures to protect your IoT devices from hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans BI Intelligence estimates that by 2020 there will be more than 23 billion IoT devices connected to the internet. One of the biggest challenges in connecting so many devices will be in securing them to prevent hackers from controlling them or…
Glitch in software allows hackers to watch Samsung owners
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Tampa, FL (NNCNOW.com) — It’s dangerous experts tell us, a software hack so malicious if you own a Samsung Galaxy someone may be watching you right now. Chances are your Samsung device has a security glitch on it. “It allows a…
Anonymous cyber hackers hit UAE banking websites
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Several UAE banks were hit by a co-ordinated cyber attack, known in the trade as a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, on Tuesday, crippling e-banking operations and websites, and leaving the unnamed institutions fearing further assaults, Arabian Business’ sister website ITP.net has reported. German…
86 percent of websites at risk from hackers, says WhiteHat
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Even though software bugs such as Heartbleed and Shellshock exposed weaknesses in hundreds of thousands of company websites, many are still vulnerable to being hacked. Data from a recent study by WhiteHat Security which examined the vulnerabilities of more than 30,000…
Research shows that hackers can use this everyday cellphone sensor to track your movements — and it’s not GPS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A newly-released academic paper suggests that even without tapping into a GPS hackers can learn your movements through your cellphone with shocking accuracy, according to the Daily Dot. These findings come from Chinese researchers who were able to hack into users’…
6 notorious hackers and their second careers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The traditional hacker of yore, commonly thought of as a pimply adolescent with Cheetos-colored fingers, is all grown up now. But in the Clinton-era glory days, the hacker was seen as a technological terror, plying a trade few understood. Most of…
Feds could be close to charging JPMorgan hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Last summer, JPMorgan Chase acknowledged a data breach that compromised personal information belonging to as many as 76 million households and 7 million small businesses, and initially there was some speculation Russian hackers may have been behind the attack. However, the…
BUSINESS Vietnamese hackers allegedly steal 50,000 accounts from local telecom giant
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The accounts, including personal information and login credentials, belong to customers of the VNPT branch in the southern province of Soc Trang, Viet said. “Hackers targeted the software used to look up customer information hosted on an old server that is…