Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The downtown highrise buildings and Space Needle seen on June 28, 2011 in Seattle, Washington. Seattle. The Seattle City Council is about to vote on a measure to let Uber and Lyft drivers unionize. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images) HERE COMES…
Twitter’s ‘State-Sponsored’ Hacking Warning Is Another Wake-Up Call
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If it’s online, it’s not secure. That’s one way to think about your data, though of course the security measures and practices of different organizations vary wildly. Twitter Inc. users will be thinking hard about what sort of information they did,…
Twitter warns of government ‘hacking’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It is the first time that the social media company has issued such a warning. Twitter emailed users to say that the hackers may have sought their email or IP addresses, or phone numbers, which it recently began collecting. The number…
Twitter Warns Its Users Of ‘Government/State Sponsored’ Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Twitter has sent warnings to a number of users that their accounts may have been hacked by “state-sponsored actors”. It is the first time that the social media company has issued such a warning. Twitter emailed users to say that the…
Russian hacking suspect says he thought arrest was abduction
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Russian man charged with hacking into U.S. businesses testified Friday that he thought he was being kidnapped when three federal agents put him in handcuffs at a Maldives airport last year and led him from the building. A former Maldivian…
China accused of hacking into Australian government’s weather bureau
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans China has been blamed for a cyber attack on Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromisedCOMPUTER systems across the federal government, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing unidentified sources. TheSECURITY breach will cost millions of dollars to fix as other…
UK pulls back the curtain on hacking campaigns
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A United Kingdom spy agency acknowledged in court on Tuesday that it has carried out numerous hacking campaigns both domestically and abroad. The hacks range from monitoring a single Internet session, to planting eavesdropping software on a device, to hijacking that…
Indian hackers pay homage to 26/11 martyrs by hacking 200 plus Pakistani sites
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Although seven years have passed but the wounds of Mumbai 26/11 are yet to heal. Yesterday the country remembered the martyrs of 26/11 on the seventh anniversary of the attacks, but Indian hackers found out a new way of expressing their…
Was ‘Snoopgate’ a counter-measure to hacking?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Details coming out of the ‘Snoopgate’ scandal surrounding the Indian cricket administration seem to be getting murkier by the day. It is now coming to light that the decision to hire UK basedSECURITY and surveillance company Page Protective Services sometime between…
Wofford to add hacking, cyber security training to curriculum
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Professors at Wofford College said they will train students to help combat terrorism, using computers as weapons. US security officials said terrorists can use cracks in cyber security systems to recruit operatives and steal and share top secret and sensitive information….