Google might be prepping a device protection plan similar to Apple’s AppleCare one. Android Police has stumbled upon numerous references to “Nexus Protect” on the Play Store, hinting that the search giant might be prepping itself to launch such a program. It appears that if you dig deep enough int…
Ways to protect yourself from credit card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It is being said that with the adoption of EMV technology, credit card fraud rates will decrease. The small chips will be set in credit cards making it more difficult to steal data. However, a new study by NerdWallet, opposite of…
Protect yourself from identity theft
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans About 19 people a minute become new victims of identity theft, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. ID theft is the fastest-growing crime in the United States, according to authorities. About 10 million people a year find themselves in trouble…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 will battle malware with cognitive computing, courtesy of Smart Protect
Qualcomm is certainly working hard on its Snapdragon 820 chipset, a chip that will have to wash away all the bad surrounding the Snapdragon 810. We already seem to know a lot about the SD820: Kryo architecture, allowing for a maximum clock of up to 3GHz per core, 14nm manufacturing…
Counting on government to protect cars from hackers isn’t our best option
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Recently, a number of media outlets, including Wired magazine and theWashington Post, reported how two hackers wirelessly took over a Jeep Cherokee, including at one point on a Missouri highway. The culprits — who staged the “hijacking” for reporters — forced…
Should You Cancel a Credit Card to Protect Your Identity?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Q. I have several credit cards that I never use, and they have no annual fee. Should I cancel them so I don’t have to worry about ID theft? A. Identity theft probably shouldn’t be as big a concern as what…
Five Ways To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft And Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Identity theft occurs on a daily basis and is everywhere. Doing a quick Google search about it, will yield millions of results on how to prevent it from happening. And there are even movies like Identity Thief, which paints the picture…
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…
Protect Yourself Against Credit Card Fraud by Clients and Customers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A lot has been written about credit card fraud by fraudsters around the world who get your credit card information and put bogus charges on it. Or they lure you into signing up for what appears to be a good deal…
OnePlus offers new build of OxygenOS to protect OnePlus One users from Stagefright
Smartphone manufacturers and carriers have been rushing to send out software updates to repair the Stagefright exploit. Stagefright uses a malicious MMS to take control of parts of your phone, allowing your personal data to be stolen. More specifically, the exploit uses code found in the Android multimedia library that…