Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers targeting hospitals and patients is a growing epidemic. Records that include names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and payment information are just some of the things they are stealing. Read our article on why you must pay attention to hospital hacks…
Iranian Hackers Accessed Millions of Users’ Info on Telegram Messaging App
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers believed to be associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accessed user accounts of the secure messaging app Telegram earlier this year, identifying the phone numbers of millions of Iranians, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The breach was is the…
10 million Android devices affected by Chinese malware earning millions for hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Check Point, a cybersecurity software maker, estimates that at least 10 million Android devices have been infected by the HummingBad malware since it was seen last February. The malware generates US$300,000 a month of ad revenue for the hacking group. The…
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…
A hacker is advertising millions of stolen health records on the dark web
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker who claims to have obtained more than ten million health records is selling the data to the highest bidder on the dark web. The seller, who goes by the name “thedarkoverlord” began listing the data over the weekend, but…
2 plead guilty in spamming scheme that targeted millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Two men have pleaded guilty for their roles in a computer hacking and spamming scheme that federal prosecutors in New Jersey say compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people. Tomasz Chmielarz, of Rutherford, New Jersey, and Devin McArthur,…
Millions of LinkedIn passwords and email addresses published online
Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. LinkedIn has revealed millions of its users’ email addresses and passwords have been published online from a security breach that occurred in 2012. The leak…
ISIS to unleash TENS OF MILLIONS of jihadi hackers on West in blitz worse than NUCLEAR WAR
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The computer security expert, who invented the McAfee anti-virus software, claimed “fifteen to 25 percent” of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are extremists, meaning ISIS could have an army of 400 million fanatical followers ready to strike at any minute. Computer…
Hacker Lexicon: Botnets, the Zombie Computer Armies That Earn Hackers Millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ZOMBIE ARMIES AREN’T just invading movie screens these days. They’re also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, that gives a bot herder remote control…
Most Sophisticated Android Bootkit Malware ever Detected; Infected Millions of Devices
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hardly two month ago we reported about the first widely spread Android Bootkit malware, dubbed as ‘Oldboot.A‘, which infected more than 500,000 Smartphone users worldwide with Android operating system in last eight months, especially in China.Oldboot is a piece of Android…