Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Using a credit or debit card involves an Internet transaction. And the Internet is a dangerous place. The list of organizations and businesses that have been hacked is huge, with the theft ofCREDIT AND DEBIT CARD data commonplace. What measures can…
Department of Education and Training beefs up online security after information hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Education Minister Kate Jones yesterday confirmed security had been upgraded in the wake of the scandal, which resulted in the details of Queensland students being illegally obtained as well as online forms submitted to the TAFE website. “DET has added additional…
Identity Theft and Having Credit Card Information Stolen by Hackers Is the Greatest Fear in the Minds of Consumers Highlighting the Need for a Safer Credit Card According to SmartMetric
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Americans worry the most about having their credit card information stolen by hackers or becoming a victim of identity theft. Anxiety over the theft of credit card information and a person’s identity is considerably more than any other serious concern. Americans’…
‘Stoner hacked CIA Director AND Homeland Security Secretary’: Student leaks private information and claims to have accessed top-secret emails and voicemails
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The FBI is investigating claims two of the highest-ranking national security officials in the US have had their personal emails hacked by a ‘dope smoking’ student hacker. Federal agents are probing reports that the personal accounts of CIA Director John Brennan…
Middle East hackers extort $10 million from two Indian companies to hide information from government
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Two Indian conglomerates were forced to pay $5 million each in order to prevent hackers from disclosing information that could have implicated them in wrongdoing. The payoff was made in May, but people aware of the matter said the hackers would…
Xiaomi’s co-founders reveal more information about the Xiaomi Mi 4c
Executives from both Meizu and Xiaomi have been using their Weibo pages to push out information about their upcoming handsets. While the former has been promoting the Meizu Pro 5, Xiaomi has been revealing information about the Xiaomi Mi 4c. Today, Xiami co-founder and president Li Nan, and Chairman and…
Samsung SmartFridge Security Flaw Leaves Gmail Login Information Vulnerable
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans You probably don’t worry about hackers compromising the security settings of your refrigerator, but its time that you should. Researchers have found a flaw that is leaving Gmail credentials vulnerable to cyber criminals. The future of the Internet of Things promises…
ISIS social media accounts are buzzing with a spreadsheet of personal data on employees of the American, British, and Australian governments, including military personnel. The Islamic State claims this list was compiled using data stolen from government systems by its “hacking division,” although some experts who have reviewed the list say most of it was more likely created using simple Google searches of publicly available data. There are about 1,400 individuals included on the list. The list was accompanied by a message from the “Islamic State Hacking Division,” transcribed by Sky News: O Crusaders, as you continue your aggression towards the Islamic State and your bombing campaign against the Muslims, know that we are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move. We have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands. So wait, we too are waiting. The Sydney Morning Herald criticizes Australian officials for being “caught on their heels” by the hit list, which includes Defense Force employees and a Victorian MP. Even though “Australia’s most senior Islamic State militant, former Melbourne man and terror recruiter Neil Prakash” was posting links to the hit list early Wednesday morning, at least half of the Australians targeted by ISIS said they were unaware of the threat until they were informed by the media… which contacted them using the phone numbers published by the Islamic State. “I’m completely at a loss,” said the aforementioned MP, who at least has access to a security detail assigned to protect elected officials. “What do I do? The police probably know less than you and I.” Defense Force employees on the list said they were in shock no one from the government had warned them. Various agencies of the Australian government declined to discuss the matter. In addition to Prakash – who crowed “Cyber war got em shook!” and “Kill them where you find them and enslave their women” on Twitter – the Herald reports “other prominent militants, including British man Junaid Hussain, who is third on a CIA kill list of Islamic State operatives, also used social media to promote the leak and encourage attacks.” Sky News reports the hit list includes British Foreign Office employees, plus a “local council employee.” Most of the names on the list are American, including personnel from the Air Force, Marines, NASA, FBI, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Russian state outlet RT.com says the list also includes “a worker in an Israeli magistrate’s court” and “someone in a college in Mississippi.” The RT.com article mentions some reasons for skepticism about the Islamic State’s claim that this list includes confidential information obtained by hackers: some of the phone numbers appear to be disconnected, while the purportedly stolen U.S. military passwords appearing on the list are “too weak to pass the guidelines of an official computer system operated by the Pentagon.” The Sydney Morning Herald also found some of the information published on the list to be outdated. “This is the second or third time they’ve claimed that and the first two times I’ll tell you, whatever lists they got were not taken by any cyber attack,” said Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, as quoted by the UK Guardian. The Guardian also cites the opinion of computer security expert Troy Hunt, who said the of the supposedly hacked data: “It’s pretty clear that it’s been aggregated from different sources. It’s been put together on the basis of a .gov or .mil address. Even the passwords, they’re not strong enough to have come from a corporate or government. They’re not even strong enough to have come from an online service – you can’t create a Gmail account, for example, with a password of less than eight characters, and here we’re seeing some passwords of three letters.” The UK Daily Mail notes that Twitter administrators appear to have shut down the Islamic State Hacking Division’s account three times on Wednesday while it attempted to spread its hit list around, leading to the creation of a fourth terrorist account with the message, “Kuffar seem to be raging.”
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ISIS social media accounts are buzzing with a spreadsheet of personal data on employees of the American, British, and Australian governments, including military personnel. The Islamic State claims this list was compiled using data stolen from government systems by its “hacking…
Beware cyber crooks as you post information online
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Did you know that by accepting Facebook requests from people you do not know and have no mutual friends with puts you and your loved ones at the risk of cyber crime? By including your personal information such as where you…
Oshkosh Police seek information in credit card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads Oshkosh Police are investigating the theft of a credit card that was used fraudulently at a west side pharmacy. A man used the credit card at CVS Pharmacy, 1736 W. Ninth Ave., on Jan. 27, according to…