Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On June 4 of this year, a larger than usual privacy breach happened to the US government Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This major hack resulted in the entire user database being stolen, including the records of more than 21 and…
Police: Bookkeeper used office credit card to buy $96K in groceries, personal travel
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A woman who worked as a bookkeeper for a West Palm Beach construction business is accused of making more than $96,000 in fraudulent charges while using her company’s credit account, police said. City police say Jessica Erinne Mount, 37, used a…
Cybercrime just got personal – and it’s time employees were educated
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When falling victim to a cyber attack, it’s hard not to take it personally. Whether its ransomware lockingCOMPUTER FILES, falling for a phishing attack, or being blackmailed for stolen information, consumer cybercrime is rife and deeply upsetting to the victim. This…
609,239 stolen British personal details on sale for £20 each on Dark Web
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Senior UK government officials have revealed that hackers have stolen personal information pertaining to tens of thousands of Britons in 2014, and that these identities are being sold on the Dark Web. The personal identities of 609,239 UK individuals were hacked…
Hacker claims to have breached CIA director’s personal email
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An anonymous hacker claims to have breached CIA Director John Brennan‘s personal email account and has posted documents online, including a list of email addresses purportedly from Brennan’s contact file. The CIA said it referred the matter to the proper authorities,…
T-Mobile partner gets hacked, hands over the personal data of 15 million T-Mobile subscribers
T-Mobile has just announced that Experian, the company that processes its credit applications, was hacked. According to preliminary estimates from both companies, it looks like the hackers gained access to the personal data of about 15 million T-Mobile subscribers. T-Mobile and Experian said that the hack affects new T-Mobile applicants…
ISIS hacker who exposed troops’ personal info killed in drone strike
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The cyber hacker affiliated with the Islamic State Hacking Division, responsible for exposing the personal information of hundreds of U.S. military and government personnel, has been killed in a drone strike. The Wall Street Journal reports that Junaid Hussain, also known as Abu Hussain…
VAIO personal computers are returning to the US later this year
VAIO plans to return to the US later this year. The newly reformed company in Japan has exclusively built, launched and supported hardware in the region without rolling out in other important markets. But this looks set to change with the company planning to sell computers outside Japan. View full…
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…
Isis hacking division’ publishes personal details of US targets online urging supporters to attack those listed
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A list of American “targets” – including the FBI and Nasa – has been listed online by a group calling itself the Islamic State hacking division. Details of 1,400 mostly US military and government personnel were published in a spreadsheet online…