Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When it comes to hacking chemical plants, for an attacker to go hackedity-hack-hack and then the plant goes boom fortunately only happens in the movies. But “if you plan to improve your financial posture” now and at least in the five…
Hacking A Phone’s GPS May Have Just Got Easier
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans One of the drawbacks of our increasingly connected world is the proliferation of new wireless connections to hack. More worrying is when hackers finding cheaper and more accessible ways to exploit those vulnerabilities. For some time it’s been possible to spoof…
All Australian mobile phones at risk of foreign hacking, says US intelligence committee head Devin Nunes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Australians have been warned that all mobile phone and email communications are constantly vulnerable to being hacked by “foreign adversaries”. “None of our networks are safe,” said Devin Nunes, a congressman who heads the intelligence committee in the US House of…
APNewsBreak: Leaked Hacking Team emails suggest Ecuador illegally spied on opposition
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ecuadorean opposition activist Dr. Carlos Figueroa was being pursued by the state when his email and Facebook accounts were hacked. Several dozen of his colleagues have similarly had their digital lives violated. All blamed President Rafael Correa’s…
Private Investigator faces Jail for Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans What a disgrace: A private investigator, Eric Saldarriaga, 41, got nailed for hacking into peoples’ e-mails. He may get six months in the can. Is six months reasonable for this, though? A recent online New York Times article quotes a prosecutor…
FCA hacking risk kept from regulators for 18 months
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WASHINGTON — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV waited 18 months to tell federal safety regulators about a security flaw in radios being installed in more than a million vehicles that hackers exploited in July to seize control of a Jeep. The automaker…
Hacking Team Leaks Confirm What Arab Privacy Advocates Already Knew
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For several years now, privacy advocates in the Middle East and North Africa have grappled with the impact of targeted surveillance technologies on various communities in their countries. These tools, sold by unscrupulous European companies to some of the world’s least…
Smartwatches open new hacking risk: study
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The surging market for smartwatches opens up new ground for hackers, according to researchers who found vulnerabilities in all the devices they tested. A study by Hewlett-Packard’s HP Fortify found “that 100 percent of the tested smartwatches contain significant vulnerabilities, including…
New free tool detects Hacking Team exploits
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A security company has released a free tool to users who suspect they may be a victim of Hacking Team’s exploit cache. Hacking Team is a secretive Milan-based firm which specializes in the sale of surveillance tools, malware and exploits to…
Cyberspies love exploits from Hacking Team leak
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The leaked files from surveillance software maker Hacking Team have proven to be a great resource for cyberespionage groups, which have used at least two Flash Player exploits from the company’s arsenal. Last Tuesday, security researchers from security firm FireEye detected…