EA Access is a great way to spend a few bucks a month on your Xbox One and members are being rewarded this month with ownership of an expansion for Battlefield 4. For a limited time, EA Access subscribers can snag the Naval Strike expansion pack completely free of charge….
Video shows Apple iPhone 6s display unit, larger Face Time camera; latest news on iPhone 6c
A video has surfaced showing the display unit of a Space Gray Apple iPhone 6s, compared with a white Apple iPhone 6. While there aren’t many changes externally between the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6s, it does appear that the size of the Face Time camera has been increased…
CISOs spend 77% of their time on tech, not enough time on strategy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to the Deloitte CISO Transition Lab, a chief information security officer (CISO) has four faces — the strategist, the advisor, the guardian of business assets, and the technologist. The findings suggest that on average, CISOs spend 77 percent of their…
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…
Best Buy to offer Apple Care+ starting next month, in time to cover the new models
Next month, around the week of September 14th, just after the unveiling of the Apple iPhone 6s and Apple iPhone 6s Plus (expected to take place on September 9th), Best Buy will officially begin offering Apple Care+ to iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch buyers. Previously, the big box retailer had…
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo shares its plans to deliver 5G in time for the Olympics in 2020
While the standard for the 5th generation of mobile communications has not been officially defined, nearly all the carriers and switchgear manufacturers are on the same page when it comes to the type of performance users can expect. Those expectations? Speed, stupid-fast data speed, and crazy-low latency. The challenge is…
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 could be announced on August 13, at the same time with MIUI 7
The long-rumored Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 might be finally announced next week, at the same time with Xiaomi’s brand new MIUI 7 Android skin. While Xiaomi already confirmed that it’s going to announce MIUI 7 on August 13, it didn’t say anything about a new Redmi Note. However, according to…
Popcorn Time vulnerability could allow hackers to take over your computer
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans One of the most popular movie streaming apps online might be a prime target for hackers. On Monday, TorrentFreak shared a report from Antonios Chariton (aka DaKnOb), a security engineer and researcher who discovered a major vulnerability in one of the most popular…
Spam email down below 50%, 1st time in a decade
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The level of spam has fallen to less than 50 per cent of the total volume of email, for the first time in more than a decade, according to security firm Symantec. The last time Symantec recorded a similar spam rate…
Real Time Crime Center keeps eye on crime
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans n the early morning hours of Nov. 6, 2014, police received a citizen complaint that three people in the 2600 block of West Broadway were talking about robbery. A crime analyst in the recently launched Real Time Crime Center who was…