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Showing posts with label Hacking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hacking. Show all posts
Friday 1 May 2015
Wednesday 22 April 2015
EFCC Arraigns Hacker For N68 Billion Bank Theft
Mr. Stephen Omaidu |
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 20, 2015 arraigned one Stephen Omaidu before Justice M. A Nasir of Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja on a two count charge bordering on theft to the tune of N68, 028, 000, 000.00 (sixty eight billion and twenty eight million naira).
Saturday 18 April 2015
FBI Pulls Computer Security Expert Off Flight, After He Tweets About Hacking Its Systems
Computer security experts tend to be suspicious souls. Sometimes, though, others become suspicious of them. Chris Roberts, a Colorado-based security fiend, took to Twitter to nudge United Airlines about what he believes is a weakness in its security systems.
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Nigeria Cybercrime Bill Allows Govt To Spy on Nigerians, Prescribes Death Sentence For Hackers
Tuesday 24 February 2015
Telephone Denial of Service Attack (TDoS): A New Hacking Tool That Floods Networks With Spam Phone Calls
Hackers are selling a new tool that lets anyone flood a phone network with spam phone calls.
The Register reports that Eastern-European hackers have developed a new piece of kit that is being sold online. The TNT Instant Up can be used to flood phone numbers with calls, stopping the phone from being used until the device is turned off.
Thursday 19 February 2015
The Great SIM Heist: How Spy Agencies Stole Encryption Keys Protecting Privacy of Cellphones
SIM Cards |
AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal
computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world,
stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone
communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents
provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Friday 6 February 2015
Monday 5 January 2015
Hacker Clones German Minister's Fingerprint From Photo, Suggests Politicians Wear Gloves In Public
Hackers have already bypassed Apple's fingerprint scanner using fake fingerprints, and now they have found a way to reproduce your fingerprints by using just a couple of photos of your fingers.
Special Fingerprint sensors have already been used by Apple and Samsung in their smartphones for authentication purposes and in near future fingerprints sensors are believed to be the part of plenty of other locked devices that can be unlocked using fingerprints, just to add an extra layer of authentication. But, How secure are your fingerprints?
Thursday 11 December 2014
150 Million PayPal Accounts In Danger of Hijacking
A vulnerability that
would have enabled a hacker to completely bypass the authentication
system in PayPal has been patched, resulting in a $10,000 bounty for the
white-hat that found it. Worth every penny, too: the flaw put 150 million PayPal customers
in danger of having their accounts hijacked with a low-effort, simple gambit.
Saturday 1 November 2014
12 Million Websites Compromised Through Cyber Attack On Drupal
Up to 12 million websites may have been compromised by attackers who took advantage of a bug in the widely used Drupal software.
Thursday 30 October 2014
18.5M Californians Lose Data To Hackers, State Attorney General's Report Blames Rise On Big Retail Data Breaches
Huge data breaches at Target
and other retailers helped fuel a 600 percent increase in the number of
California residents’ records compromised in cyber attacks last year,
according to a study released Tuesday.
Thursday 2 October 2014
Monday 31 March 2014
United Kingdom Launches CyberSecurity Team
United Kingdom's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK), which will co-ordinate the country's cybersecurity defence, has been formally launched. The body will deal with "cybersecurity incidents" of national significance. It will also provide advice and alerts on cyber-threats to government, industry and academia.
Speaking at the launch, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said that 93% of large corporations had had "a breach" over the past financial year. The attacks cost on average between £450,000 and £850,000, he added.
The minister also repeated the claim that one London-based company had suffered a security breach which cost it "£800m worth of revenue".
The minister also repeated the claim that one London-based company had suffered a security breach which cost it "£800m worth of revenue".
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