Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A number of cases have popped up from the FBI running a child porn sting for two weeks on dark net. Courts have ruled that the warrant issued wasn’t valid, while other have ruled it as valid. The government was The…
2 Israelis arrested for major hacking operation after FBI tip-off
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans 18-year-olds Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani suspected of pocketing $600,000 for masterminding cyber attack-for-hire services Two Israeli men suspected of pocketing over $600,000by running a major international hacking operation were arrested by police in Israel last week following a tip-off The…
Police failure to investigate Milly Dowler phone hacking ‘unacceptable’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The failure by police to investigate the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone was “unacceptable” and “a matter of deep regret”, an internal investigation has said. The failure by police to investigate the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s The…
A Man from Florida Held for Hacking Linux Kernel Organisation
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As per announcement by Department of Justice on Thursday, a South Florida computer programmer was arrested on last week for apparently hacking into the servers connected to operating system of Linux. The case works like reminder that hackers even can The…
Two NC Men Charged in Computer Hacking Scheme Targeting Senior Government Officials
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans NORTH CAROLINA — Two North Carolina millennials have marketable skills but seem to be putting them to use in ways more likely to land them jail time than a job. Federal authorities are charging 22-year-old Andrew Boggs of north Wilkesboro The…
A Hacking Group is Selling Spyware to Government
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you think iPhone is the safest smartphone out there, we’ve got something that’s going to burst this bubble of yours. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, spyware relying on three previously unknown, or “zero-day,” flaws in Apple’s iOS The…
Son Of Russian Parliament Member Convicted Of Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Roman Seleznev, also known as “Track2,” has been convicted on charges that he conspired to hack into U.S. businesses as part of a plot to steal and sell credit card numbers. The hack is estimated to have cost upwards of The…
The National Security Agency has no idea how a rogue hacking group leaked its exploits
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The US intelligence community is still attempting to figure out how a hacking group called the Shadow Brokers was able to obtain and leak a slew of NSA computer exploits used to circumvent security of routers and firewalls, top officials The…
Florida man in hacking probe gets 42 years in prison for child porn
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Florida private investigator was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Monday for using a minor to produce child pornography, which was discovered after authorities searched his computers following his arrest last year for hacking a global charity. Timothy The…
So much for secrets: Hacking of NSA code shows a wide open world
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The report that hackers may have obtained the code to the National Security Agency’s own key hacking tools and put it on the internet is alarming, to say the least. At this point it is not clear if the hackers, The…