Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For those who are especially aware of historical politics, or who simply follow the lives of billionaires, the name Ross Perot Jr. might be familiar. It was a bit of a mystery when his father, Ross Perot, dropped out of the 1992…
Police aim to keep trick-or-treaters safe from sex offenders
“Individuals that are registered sex offenders or have historical sex offense convictions”, Perkofski explained. On the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation website, an interactive map lets users search and see exactly who a sex offender is, what their charge is and exactly where they reside. In fact, police say they’re all…
Operation Trick-or-Treat 2015, Keeping Kids Safe from Sex Offenders
In an ongoing effort to make Halloween safer for the children in our communities, the U.S. Marshals and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are conducting “Operation Trick-or Treat”, a four day joint law enforcement operation in Clark County, Nevada to ensure compliance with sex offender registration requirements by sex…
DOC teams out on Halloween to keep Del. kids safe
The DOC says on Halloween, all high risk sex offenders and sex offenders with child victims who are under supervision, have to stay inside of their home, with outside lights turned off beginning at 6:00 PM. They are not allowed to hand out candy, participate in Halloween related activities, or…
Samsung says its mobile payments data is safe despite hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Samsung Electronics has said its mobile payment system is safe after a hacking attack against its US-based subsidiary LoopPay. An article in the New York Times on Wednesday said the hacking incident had occurred against LoopPay’s network in March. LoopPay, acquired…
No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans’ Privacy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The spread of knowledge about the NSA’s surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S….
European Court of Justice rules the U.S. ‘Safe Harbor’ data-sharing pact is invalid
European Union Court rules that the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor agreement on the transfer of personal data is invalid The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Safe Harbor agreement on which many businesses depend for the transatlantic transfer of personal data is invalid. The question of privacy…
EU-US data flows using “Safe Harbour” may be illegal because of NSA spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The “Safe Harbour” framework—which is supposed to ensure data transfers from the EU to the US are legal under European data privacy laws—does not satisfy the EU’s Data Protection Directive as a result of the “mass, indiscriminate surveillance” carried out by the…
Simply lengthy wrong passwords bypass Android 5.x lockscreen; PIN & Pattern Safe
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to one of their recent discoveries, there’s a bug that affects 21 percent of Android devices in use and it basically allows anyone to unlock your password-protected device by bypassing the lock screen with an extremely lengthy password. In August,…
Uber hires hackers: Semi-famous duo keeps driverless vehicles safe from hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Uber has hired hackers and why not, who better than skilled hackers to ward off unsolicited hackers in the future for their driverless cars? The Uber folks have confirmed that they did indeed hire security researchers who are known for their…