Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Federal prosecutors are opposing a tech-savvy journalist’s bid to stay out of prison while he appeals his convictions on computer hacking charges. Without relief from a federal judge or a higher court, former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys could have…
Chinese Hackers Used Dropbox To Monitor Hong Kong Activists, Journalists: FireEye
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese hackers used malicious software to monitor journalists and activist groups involved in the Hong Kong protests this year, according to new research from the cybersecurity company FireEye. Attackers used Dropbox and other cloud storage providers to communicate malware after targeting users…
Vodafone Australia admits to hacking journalist’s phone in public statement
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is being implicated in a fairly stunning scandal, in which it has admitted to having improperly accessed a reporter’s phone in search of the identity of a whistleblower. An individual had leaked confidential security information to her,…
Vodafone’s ‘unforgivable’ hacking of journalist’s phone must be investigated, says union
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Australia’s Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance has called on the privacy commissioner to investigate the circumstances of the “unforgivable” hacking of a journalist’s phone data. On Saturday the Australian published leaked emails that detailed how a day after Fairfax journalist Natalie…
Vodafone Australia admits hacking Fairfax journalist’s phone
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Vodafone Australia has admitted an employee hacked a journalist’s phone records in an attempt to uncover her sources for stories, but the telecommunications company denies any “improper behaviour”, despite internal emails suggesting it deliberately misled authorities about systemic privacy breaches. In…
Journalists Bribed Police for Royals’ phone numbers? Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman to be retried
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World, will go on trial yet again this summer. Coulson’s retrial for accusations of paying police officers for a phone directory for the royal family is scheduled for this June, the Guardian…
Journalist’s father dies following harassment by Franco-Israeli hacker
A Franco-Israeli hacker has threatened to sue a website over articles linking him to the death of the father of one of its journalists. Grégory Chelli, alias Ulcan, phoned Rue89 reporter Benoît Le Corre to mock him after hearing the […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Swiss winemaker, a spy and two others on charges of hacking the computers of at least two journalists.
The Geneva public prosecutor says winemaker Dominique Giroud and an unnamed federal intelligence officer, along with a professional hacker and a private investigator, were arrested for hacking while allegedly trying to identify the source of media leaks about a criminal investigation into Giroud in Swiss canton (state) Vaud. Read…
Google denies accessing journalist’s email to spy on leakers
Google was accused of spying by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, a journalist, who accused the technology giant of breaking into his email account to know who was sending Arrington the emails of Google’s internal affairs. However Google denies the charge calling it “serious and unimaginable”. In a statement to Recode…
Exclusive : its not only Hackers , Journalists are also targeting other journalists
Watch out Journalists! Some journalists are after you. C-net article by Don Reisinger , ” Watch out, journalists: Hackers are after you claims many of the journalist-turned hackers are spying on other journalists to steal reports and classified information of their media outlet. Report is followed Google research which claimed that hackers…
