Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Businesses are spending on average just over 5% of their overall IT budgets on trying to prevent the latest hacks and security breaches, according to analyst house Gartner. Despite the growing risk of threats facing organisations, surprisingly, Gartner said that The…
Nintendo NES Classic Edition gets hacked to run Linux in just four days
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans AS MOST of the world continues to wait desperately for new stock of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition, you just know that somewhere, someone’s been there, done that, hacked it. The console runs on Linux, and an enterprising member of The…
‘Halloweentown’ Isn’t Just A Classic Disney Movie — It’s A Real Place You Should Visit
Come October, everyone starts squealing about how utterly obsessed they are with Halloween. But we assure you, no one is as dedicated to the spooky holiday as the quaint town of St. Helens, Oregon. The riverside city was used as the backdrop for Disney’s “Halloweentown” ― the iconic 1998 kids flick…
Winnie-The-Pooh And His Friends Just Got A Glorious Makeover
Once upon a time, nearly 100 years ago, a real boy named Christopher Robin sat in his room and played with five dolls: a toy bear, donkey, kangaroo, pig and tiger. That boy was English author A.A. Milne’s son, and those dolls were, of course, Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Kanga, Piglet and Tigger, the…
Hackers could steal sensitive data just by listening to a hard drive
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans BAD NEWS on the insecurity front. Fiendish researchers have worked out and demonstrated another way to access and exploit your personals. The researchers from Cornell University warned that a thing called DiskFiltration is your new nightmare, that is if you’ve The…
Hackers Have Just Cracked The Internet’s Most Common Security Protocol, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HTTPS is everywhere you look. Most social media sites use it, YouTube uses it, it’s a basic protocol for secure email, and any website that takes a credit card uses it as a bare minimum. And unfortunately, researchers have just breached…
Snooki Just Beyoncé-Dropped The Best/Worst Rap Video Of All Time
Tell your loved ones goodbye and prepare for Armageddon because Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is releasing music under the pseudonym “Yung Mommy.” “Here it is. My first music video,” the “Jersey Shore” star wrote on Instagram. “I’ve decided to be an ass and record a song about my life and being…
Hackers Selling FUD Stampado Ransomware for Just $39
HACKERS ARE SELLING STAMPADO RANSOMWARE ON THE DARK NET FOR JUST $39 — THEY CLAIM IT’S FUD (FULLY UNDETECTABLE)! The Dark Net is full of illegal products including drugs, fake id card, weapons, databases or even highly contemptible listings of child abuse images but now researchers have discovered complete ransomware…
The Pentagon just paid cash to hackers who found 100+ bugs in its systems
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Considering the nature of its work, it’s no surprise that the Pentagon is of huge interest to hackers, whether state sponsored or pajama wearing (OK, they could be one and the same). Skip ►muted Keen to beef up its cyber security…
Hackers Can Steal Your Facebook Account With Just A Phone Number
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Even where users have chosen strong passwords and taken extra security measures, their Facebook accounts are not safe from hackers. Researchers have proven just that by taking control of a Facebook account with only a phone number and some hacking skills…