Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads As Google’s Android smartphone operating system was coming under attack in fall 2012 from malware with the colorful names of “Loozfon” and “FinFisher,” the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center issued an alert to help defend against…
Hackers developed a new tool that can flood networks with spam phone calls
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers are selling a new tool that lets anyone flood a phone network with spam phone calls. The Register reports that Eastern-European hackers have developed a new piece of kit that is being sold online. The TNT Instant Up can be…
Hackers can track phone users’ location by looking at power supply
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads Researchers have found out it is possible to track someone’s mobile phone by looking at how much battery has been used. The data does not need the users’ permission to be shared, while it can help track…
DOJ to telcos: Have phone kill switches to prevent theft
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans MANILA, Philippines – The cybercrime office of the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday, February 16, urged telecommunications companies to adopt a new practice of installing kill switches in smartphones in order to reduce theft of these gadgets. A kill switch…
Smartphone Kill Switch Stopping Phone Thieves From Making A Killing
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It’s getting harder for smartphone thieves to make a living these days as kill switch technology is proving to be a viable, and valuable, anti-theft mechanism. It seems the feature is paying off for consumers using Apple, Samsung and Google, with…
News Corp won’t be prosecuted in US in relation to phone hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will not face any charges in the US in relation to phone hacking and payments to public officials by News of the World journalists in the UK, the company said. “News Corporation was notified by the United…
How will the Guardian and the BBC cover the Trinity Mirror phone hacking?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Trinity Mirror have admitted that they published 71 stories which were enabled by phone-hacking. Now eight cases are due to come before Mr Justice Mann at the beginning of March, with a two-week trial scheduled. Those they concern include Alan Yentob, Sadie Frost and…
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…
World’s most ‘NSA-proof’ phone vulnerable to simple SMS hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A smartphone marketed as the most anti-surveillance, NSA-proof personal device – the BlackPhone – has been found vulnerable to a simple SMS attack that allows the hacker to steal contacts, decrypt messages, and even take full control of the device. The…
Revenge porn’ photos of Darlington ‘love-cheat’ woman sent to friends and family by phone hacker lover
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads A MARRIED man sent naked photographs of a woman he had been having an affair with to her friends and family after discovering she had been cheating on him, a court was told today (Wednesday, January…