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…
The Grand Theft Auto games are on sale, so get them while they’re hot!
If violent car stealing, thug shooting action and brilliant, gangster movie-like plots are what has been missing from your life, now is the perfect time to indulge into what you’ve been longing for. Rockstar Games just slashed the prices of all mobile Grand Theft Auto games it has on Android…
Kid cyber conferences allow them to “Go hack yourself”
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.” – Kevin Mitnick “A white-hat hacker is someone who enjoys thinking of innovative new ways to make, break and use anything to create a better world.” – Nico…
Ingenious kid hacks his parents’ phones so that the word ‘no’ automatically changes to ‘hell yes’ – before asking them if he can throw a party
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans At first glance it might seem like the young man in this post has the coolest parents ever – parents who not only give the go-ahead for him to have a party, but consent with an emphatic ‘hell yes!’ But things…
Sprint updates the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge to prepare them for the US launch of Samsung Pay
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Looking for affordable smartphones with Quad HD screens? Here are 8 of them that cost less than $500
Back in December 2013, when the world’s first Quad HD smartphone (Vivo Xplay 3S) was announced, everyone probably assumed that it, as well as the Quad HD handsets that were to follow, would be among the most expensive smartphones on the market. Fortunately, that’s not entirely true. Of course, many…
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…
Apple’s latest iOS 9 beta introduces gorgeous new wallpapers, get them here
After its stage debut at Apple’s 2015 WWDC, iOS 9 subsequently found its way to the devices of willing adopters as a public beta. Apart from it, there’s also a developer beta released on a regular basis; currently, its fifth iteration is up. Guess what, it comes with a slew…
Eight new themes released in the Samsung Theme Store, check them out here
The Samsung Theme Store, which houses a lot of different skins for the newest variation of TouchWiz, is a great way to customize the looks of your Galaxy S6 or S6 edge. We’ve already highlighted the better ones among them, and as the top-end Galaxy family is about to welcome…
4 common but dangerous cyber threats and steps to address them
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Increased access to the technical tools needed to launch cyber attacks, minimal risk of apprehension and lucrative payouts have created a perverse incentive for criminals to embrace crimes that are cyber-enabled or cyber-dependent. The nature of cyber crimes, the motivation behind…