Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans US is always worried about its security, no matter it’s about physical or cyber related. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Pentagon efforts to strengthen its U.S. Cyber Command in coming years. By 2016, the Fort Meade, Md.-based military command expects to…
He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums into recruitment hotbeds and propaganda mechanisms. We need a security apparatus in the digital space to address this threat. Hackers are the face of this digital army.” The actor said he is bringing his whole team including scriptwriters of the show to observe and interact with the ethical hacker community. (Also Read: Tabu Has Shown Interest in 24, Says Director ) “From November 22, I will start shooting for 24. It will go on air in 2016. When an actor prepares for a role, we often start to live like the character. Some call it method acting. We meet real life people like the character and try to understand their nuances, their life,” he said. As per the summit’s website, speakers will share details of the espionage mission as well as hold sessions on hacking of cellular networks, medical devices in hospitals, using technical loopholes in them. The consortium claims to have discovered cyber espionage operation under which phones of Indian Army personnel, who had downloaded some mobile application related to news, had been compromised by hackers based in Pakistan. IIC CEO Jiten Jain has said that the findings were handed over to security agencies who promptly acted and sanitised the infected handset early this year.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums…
Credit Card Hackers Figured Out How To Break Chip-And-PIN Security Years Ago
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber criminals have already figured out a way to hack the new chip-and-PIN credit card system currently being introduced at businesses throughout the United States. Five French citizens have been convicted of manipulating vulnerabilities in the system with a card-switching technique…
CREDIT CARD — USERS WARNED OF SCAMS AMID SHIFT TO SECURITY CHIP CARDS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you’re a credit card user, you either have or will be getting new cards with security chips. They are designed to protect you against fraud, but scammers are already tying to exploit them. “It’s the biggest change in the way…
Ukraine tensions could hurt international security efforts, Kaspersky says
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As governments all around the world are finding a peaceful solution for the political tension in Ukraine , the cyber-criminals could catch government with online attacks , warned Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky. “It is good news for the local IT…
Centrelink ‘tightens security’ as identity theft crimes to access welfare payments grow
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Ms Pearce-Stevenson’s remains were found in the Belanglo Forest in NSW in 2010, while the remains of her daughter Khandalyce, believed to be aged about two, were found near a suitcase alongside the Karoonda Highway in South Australia’s Murray Mallee earlier…
55,000 Social Security Numbers exposed in the security breach of VFW.org
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Veterans of Foreign Wars recently began notifying their users that hackers hacked into VFW.org and hackers were able to see their users personal information. In February 2014 , Veterans of Foreign Wars bitterest was hacked by hackers and hackers…
Credit card security upgrade also a chance for fraud
The scammers are striking during the rollout of a new technology to thwart scamming. It all has to do with the new chip-embedded credit cards. Credit card companies have been mailing out credit and debit cards that offer greater security against fraud. The new cards are embedded with a chip…
‘Stoner hacked CIA Director AND Homeland Security Secretary’: Student leaks private information and claims to have accessed top-secret emails and voicemails
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The FBI is investigating claims two of the highest-ranking national security officials in the US have had their personal emails hacked by a ‘dope smoking’ student hacker. Federal agents are probing reports that the personal accounts of CIA Director John Brennan…
Cyber Security Expert Mikko Hyppönen Worries About Extremists With Computers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber security expert Mikko Hyppönen said he worries about a new group of hackers who are willing to perpetrate the kinds of attacks even cyber criminals wouldn’t consider — extremists. “The Islamic State is the first extremist group that has a credible…