Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Former St. Louis Cardinals executive Christopher Correa was sentenced Monday to 46 months in prison for illegal incursions into the Astros’ computer database, wrapping up a case of sports-related cybercrime that a federal judge summed up as plain, old-fashioned theft. Correa,…
Qld cop in court on hacking charges
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Brisbane police officer has fronted court accused of hacking the state crime database. Sergeant Michael Andrew Neiland, 47, was charged by the Corruption and Crime Commission in June for alleged unauthorised use of the Queensland Police Service Qprime database. Neiland…
Chinese aerospace executive charged with hacking for China
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Chinese head of a yet-unnamed aviation company has been sentenced to four years in prison for hacking into rival defence contractors in an effort to acquire military defence intelligence. Su Bin, 51, also known as Stephen Subin, admitted to a…
Car hacking: why cyber crime is a real threat
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It’s 2020 and, as you start your premium family saloon for the morning commute, something is wrong. The 20in touchscreen is dead. Suddenly it flickers into life but instead of the usual map there’s a message: “Your car’s computer has been…
UPGRADE 1-Chinese guy to serve US prison term in military hacking case
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Chinese man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack into the computer system networks of Boeing and other major U.S. defense specialists, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly four years in jail, district attorneys stated. Su Bin, 51, was accuseded…
Growth Hacking or Digital Marketing? A Growth Hacking Intro
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ‘Growth hacking’ is a term first coined by Sean Ellis in 2010 and is now one of the hottest topics in global startup culture. At its core, growth hacking is the process of micro testing and reacting to data with the…
3D Printing at Risk to Hacking says NYU Researchers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Additive manufacturing (AM), also called 3D printing, is a $4 billion business set to quadruple by 2020. In the future, manufacturers may print everything from cars to medicines, disrupting centuries-old production practices. The Federal Aviation Administration recently certified the first 3D-printed…
HACKING AS AN OFFICIAL PROFESSION IS BECOMING MORE POPULAR
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans I’ve been speaking about hacking recently and about how risky it is for a person to be a hacker’s target. However, not everything about hacking is dangerous for people, as not all hackers use their talents to scoop classified information or…
Google working to protect Chrome from quantum hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Google is working on post-quantum encryption for its Chrome internet browser, it announced today in a blog post by software engineer Matt Braithwaite. Quantum computers use advanced aspects of quantum physics to solve problems many times faster than today’s binary computers….
Critical Flaws In Symantec Security Tools Expose Millions Of Computers To Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A top level Google security researcher has found a series of critical vulnerabilities in most of Symantec’s enterprise and consumer products, that were, apparently, ridiculously easy to exploit by hackers. Symantec, which patched the eight security flaws discovered said: “Fixes are…