Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ERBIL – Kurdish programmers and hackers have competed in a two-day workshop in Erbil to hack a website designed by a cyber security expert. The US Consulate in Erbil joined up with organisations AngleHack and HackaGlobal to hold the event…
UK prosecutors mull charges for News Corp. over hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans LONDON (AP) – British prosecutors say they are considering corporate charges against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. over phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The news comes amid reports that former editor and Murdoch lieutenant Rebekah Brooks is…
Is car hacking the new car jacking?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A MONTH AGO, online news released an article about two security specialists who commandeered a Jeep Cherokee’s onboard computers, and took control of the air conditioner, windshield wipers, and most terrifying, the accelerator and brakes. Recently, Volkswagen lost a two-year battle…
Cyborgs, third ears and body hacking: How the future of technology is inside us
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Science fiction is full of stories in which the machines take over and humans are left subservient to their own creations, but according to some artists and experimenters, that need not be our future. The work of Neil Harbisson, an Irish-born…
Ashley Madison hacking: Founder emails leaked in fresh data dump
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Emails sent by the founder of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com appear to have been exposed in a second, larger release of data stolen from its parent company, cyber security experts confirmed on Thursday. The data dump by hackers who have attacked the…
Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WASHINGTON—A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ e-mail and social media…
IRS admits taxpayer hacking is much worse than previously announced
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Last May, when the Internal Revenue Service announced that hackers had managed to successfully breach their network security and steal the confidential data of unwitting taxpayers, the IRS said that “approximately 100,000 tax accounts” were affected. But today the agency admitted that number is much larger,…
TECHNOLOGY: Car hacking is the next carjacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When I watched some security researchers hack into several cars without even touching them, my head exploded a little bit. There are countless models on the market now that offer slick upgrades like 4G LTE connectivity and even wifi. Why have…
How The LAPD Has Been Hacking Our Phones For Years
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The LAPD has had access to a device called a “dirtbox” for the past several years. This equipment allows them to intercept calls and text messages from numerous cellphones at once. A “dirtbox” gets its name from the acronym of the…
IRS ADMITS HACKING TWICE AS BAD AS ORIGINALLY ANNOUNCED
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Every government hacking story seems to include subsequent revelations that the problem is at least twice as bad as the authorities originally admitted. The IRS data breach originally announced last May followed the usual pattern, as theAssociated Press reported today that the number…