Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The female caller was frantic. Why, she asked 911 dispatchers, hadn’t paramedics arrived to her home? She’d already called once to say her husband was writhing on the floor in pain. “Hurry up!,” she’d pleaded, as she gave the operator […]…
Police warning over computer gaming hackers targeting children
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans POLICE have issued a warning about popular kids’ computer game Minecraft after an Avalon family was hacked by a person living overseas. The family’s 13-year-old son had been playing the game with a person in New Zealand for 12 months […]…
Hackers are after more than just personal info
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A cyberattack on Community Health Systems Inc., a private hospital network, in April and June resulted in the theft of non-medical data of 4.5 million Americans, including names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, according to a new […]…
Hackers take control of Internet appliances
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The plundering of the Internet of Things has commenced. From a command center in a non-descript high-rise here in the heart of Silicon Valley, security start-up Norse has been gathering shocking evidence of hackers usurping control of Internet-connected appliances, everything […]…
Chinese Hackers Steal Personal Data From 4.5M Community Health Systems Patients
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Community Health Systems, one of the largest hospital operators in the U.S., today announced that hackers stole about 4.5 million records with patient names, addresses, birth data, phone numbers and Social Security numbers. The company says the data was stolen […]…
Phone hackers ‘sought details of Kylie Minogue’s cancer treatment’
London: British private investigator Glenn Mulcaire hacked the voicemails of Kylie Minogue’s siblings, Dannii and Brendan, so News of the World could write intimate details about the pop star’s cancer treatment in Melbourne in 2005. Details of the hack were […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Hackers hit Jewel-Osco
Jewel-Osco suffered a data breach that exposed customers’ payment-card information, marking the latest hacker attack on the retail industry. All Jewel-Osco stores were affected, according to a spokeswoman. But “as of this time, we have not determined that any card […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Hackers have the names and Social Security numbers of Ferguson police. But should they share them?
David, a.k.a. Pharaoh, doesn’t hold a political office or opine for CNN. But this week, the 14-year-old hacker mounted what might have been one of the more personally damaging attacks against Ferguson, Mo.’s embattled police department: the name — and […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Mike Brown Shooter: Anonymous Hackers Threaten Ferguson, Missouri, Police If Demands Aren’t Met
The Anonymous hackers have made good on their threats to disrupt the Ferguson, Missouri, police department, shutting down its website and phone lines for a time and threatening to name the officer who killed Mike Brown if the officials don’t […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Hackers penetrated the Kremlin government’s security system
Hackers penetrated the Kremlin government’s security system today breaking into premier Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter account to announce he was quitting. The incident sparked a rush of web humour directed by Russians against rulers seen by many as authoritarian but who […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…