Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans While Russia’s cyber escapades continue to dominate the headlines, a more salient threat to those outside of the Beltway is escaping notice. For the average hacker, private sector networks are preferred targets over their public sector counterparts because they tend ……
Three Indians hack Dubai businessman’s bank account, steal 1 million dirhams
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Three Indian men have been accused of stealing 1 million dirhams by hacking into a Dubai businessman’s mobile banking application after obtaining a duplicate SIM card using forged papers. The Indian trio, who have not been named — a 38-year-old The…
Clicking on random FB apps may allow hackers to steal personal data: Cyber experts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers these days are waiting to access your personal details using such enticing apps, caution cyber experts. The victims whose data have been stolen or accounts hacked have now reached the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police. Special teams have been The…
Hackers could steal sensitive data just by listening to a hard drive
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans BAD NEWS on the insecurity front. Fiendish researchers have worked out and demonstrated another way to access and exploit your personals. The researchers from Cornell University warned that a thing called DiskFiltration is your new nightmare, that is if you’ve The…
Hackers hit 330,000 cash registers to steal your credit card data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Keeping your credit card details safe is getting harder and harder these days. Cybercriminals are trying to steal your information no matter where you use your card. In the last year, we’ve seen attacks on restaurants, retail stores, hotels and The…
Bitcoin Price Plunges 20% After Hackers Steal $72 Million
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Prices in bitcoin fell over 20% on Tuesday after a security breach at Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based exchange. Reuters reported that almost 120,000 units of bitcoin, together worth $72 million at the time, had been stolen from online customers. The exchange…
Hackers steal sex tape from Virgin Islands Congressional delegate and post it online two weeks before she runs for re-election
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A sex tape and nude photos of the Virgin Islands’ delegate to Congress and her husband were posted online briefly by hackers before they were removed. Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett, 52, said that it is a ‘shockingly disgusting’ invasion of her…
Hackers Steal Data from Polish Defence Ministry and Ask for $50,000 Ransom
Agroup of hackers that call themselves “Pravyy Sector” [Right Sector] are extorting the Polish Government on Twitter, threatening to release data stolen from Poland’s Defence Ministry if the government doesn’t pay $50,000, either to a Ukrainian bank account or a Bitcoin address. The name Right Sector is also used by…
Taiwan Banks Close Hundreds of ATMs after Hackers Steal $2 Million
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Taiwan banks shut hundreds of ATM machines across Taiwan on Tuesday following a NT$70 million ($2.18 million) heist over the weekend, an epa journalist reports. Two masked persons hacked into the ATM system of First Bank over the weekend, causing 34…
Man Uses Side Business to Steal More Than $200k From His Employer
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Waukesha County man faces nearly 200 years imprisonment after police say he stole more than $200,000 from his employer by creating a phony vendor account for the subcontractor business he owned on the side. Jason W. Matthews has been charged…