Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex with the increase in the skills of attackers and so, has become one of favorite weapon for the cyber criminals to temporarily suspend or crash the services of…
The NSA Says It Will Finally Stop Spying On Millions of Americans at Midnight on Saturday
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans At midnight on Saturday, the federal government’s bulk data-gathering program for American phone conversations will come to an end at last. The move comes more than two years after former government contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden released thousands of classified documents to…
9 charged for stealing millions of dollars with Zeus Malware
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Zeus malware is one of the most damaging pieces of financial malware that has helped the culprits to infect thousands of business computers and capture passwords, account numbers and other information necessary to log into online banking accounts. U.S. Department…
Heartbleed – OpenSSL Zero-day Bug leaves Millions of websites Vulnerable
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It is advised to those who are running their web server with OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0, then it is significantly important that you update to OpenSSL 1.0.1g immediately or as soon as possible. As this afternoon, an extremely critical programming flaw in…
POS made Michaels, Aaron Brothers risk millions of payment cards
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Two independent security firms that dates back to January, arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores confirmed that, much like retail giant Target, its U.S. stores had experienced a payment card breach. The Michaels breach involved malware on point-of-sale systems that neither…
Kid, 15, Is Prime Suspect in Talk Talk Data Hack Affecting Millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans There was utter panic when an unauthorized user broke into the website of the British telecoms and broadband company TalkTalk this week. The hacker stole the bank details of up to 4 million individual customers, past and present. A ransom demand…
Talk Talk faces hacking compensation bill running into millions
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Talk Talk has conceded that it could face a compensation bill running into millions for customers whose bank accounts were raided after the telecoms company was targeted in a huge cyber-attack. The company, which has been accused of ignoring warnings that…
Latvian Malware maker pleads guilty for stealing millions from online bank accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Latvian hacker, Deniss Calovskis, pleaded guilty in US court for co-writing the Gozi virus. The said virus enabled criminals to steal millions of dollars from online bank accounts by causing massive worldwide computer infection. He admitted to committing the computer intrusion…
No Notification Given To Millions Of Federal Employees About Security Data Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As many as 21.5 million federal employees’ security clearance data has been hacked. The United States government has so far not intimated any of the federal employees whose security clearance data were hacked and the hacking has taken place more than…
Carphone Warehouse hackers gain access to millions of customer bank details
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have gained access to the personal details of 2.4 million people after cracking into Carphone Warehouse’s systems, the company has admitted. It announced that the IT systems of one of its UK divisions were found to have been breached on…