Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Cyber Security Threat 2015: Crowdfunding Site Patreon Targeted by Hackers; Large Amount of User Data Leaked Online
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Patreon, the crowdfunding site designed for artists and creators, was recently targeted in a massive cyber attack. The data breach led to around 15GB of users’ information being stolen by the hackers and leaked online. The attack on the site was…
Targeted strike: Drone drops anti-spying leaflets over NSA complex in Germany
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Adopting a propaganda technique from the WWII, German activists used a drone to drop anti-spying leaflets over the National Security Agency complex in Germany, hoping they would encourage intelligence workers to quit in protest over mass surveillance. The leaflet drop, which…
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…
Cyber-crime rapidly increasing with thousands of Turks being targeted
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Consumer Issues Association (TÜSODER) President Aydın Ağaoğlu states that on a daily basis 10,000 mobile phone and internet users fall into the traps set up by fraudsters. Stating that the number of scams is growing rapidly, Ağaoğlu adds that he gets…
UCLA Health system targeted by cyber attackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As many as 4.5 million patient files may have been breached by a cyber attack on the UCLA Health system, but there is no evidence yet that any personal or medical information has been accessed, officials said Friday. The attack may…
Illumina Announces First Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Solution for Forensic Genomics
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced the launch of the MiSeq FGx Forensic Genomics System, the first fully validated forensic next-generation sequencing (NGS) system, which simultaneously interrogates short tandem repeats (STR) and other valuable…
Targeted attacks will become as prevalent as cybercrime, says Trend Micro: 2015 Technology Predictions
In 2015, more cyber criminals will turn to darknets and exclusive-access forums to share and sell crime ware; increased cyber activity will translate to better, bigger and more successful hacking tools and attempts; and exploit kits will target Android as […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Sony Pictures Targeted by Widespread Hack
The news comes a day a group called DerpTrolling claimed that it hacked into Sony’s PlayStation Network and published the email addresses and passwords of gamers Sony Pictures has been targeted by a widespread hack that has staffers logged off […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Targeted cyber attacks expected to rise in 2015
TrendLabs has released a report called, The Invisible Becomes Visible, in which it outlines its industry predictions on what the cyber threat landscape is expected to look like in 2015. And with hackers having so much success against prominent targets […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…