Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans BAD NEWS on the insecurity front. Fiendish researchers have worked out and demonstrated another way to access and exploit your personals. The researchers from Cornell University warned that a thing called DiskFiltration is your new nightmare, that is if you’ve The…
Hackers hit 330,000 cash registers to steal your credit card data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Keeping your credit card details safe is getting harder and harder these days. Cybercriminals are trying to steal your information no matter where you use your card. In the last year, we’ve seen attacks on restaurants, retail stores, hotels and The…
Why Opal hackers are still hunting savings
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans New data shows that “Opal runners” are still actively seeking public transport savings. There are only three weeks left until the rules for using the Opal public transport smartcard in Sydney change, and you’ll no longer be entitled to the The…
Swarms of Predatory Hackers Menace Olympic Tourists in Brazil
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As if the crime, political instability, dicey infrastructure, questionable sanitation, and Zika weren’t bad enough, Olympic tourists also find themselves set upon by swarms of predatory hackers. NBC News warns that security experts call Rio de Janeiro “one of the The…
Hackers Do Not Discriminate: Why you should follow these Security Tips
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Many small businesses bless the day when the Internet gained popularity because leveled the playing field for them. They could now compete in terms of promotion and marketing to the big players, and potentially sell their products and services just The…
A Future With Neural Implants Means Hackers Can Remote-Control Your Brain
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “Give us $10,000 or you’re toast.” You can hear the voice clearly, but there’s no one in your house. It’s coming from inside your head. From your neural implant, to be exact. Hackers. “We’ve infected your brain chip with The post…
Hackers Breach FossHub to Deliver Trojan That Rewrites MBR
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans How many times have you looked past the security signs that warn you that installing particular software could be dangerous for your computer? How many of us run untested programs with administrator privileges? In all likelihood, you would have done it…
Hackers target Queensland Premier’s department emails
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Queensland government has moved to strengthen its cyber security as police investigate yet another hack to hit the state, this time involving the state’s top bureaucrat. The hack has affected the Director-General of Premier and Cabinet Dave Stewart’s email with…
Researchers might have found a way to protect our brains from hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “Wait, what?” is probably your first thought, but in actuality brain-computer interfaces are closer than we think, perhaps arriving as early as the next decade, reports TheNextWeb. And though this new interaction could do wonders for computing—allowing people to easily manipulate…
Hackers Fool Tesla S’s Autopilot to Hide and Spoof Obstacles
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans IN MAY, WHEN a Tesla S in autopilot mode failed to detect a white tractor-trailer turning into its path and careened into the rig’s side at 74 miles per hour, killing the car’s driver, the question of the reliability of autonomous…