Now Is the Time To Make a Career Investment in Cybersecurity

As someone interested in joining the IT workforce, or someone who is already involved with IT but looking to further their career, cybersecurity - as a specialization - offers a number of benefits and advantages. If you've never considered training in IT security, now is the time to reconsider.

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).

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.

Cybersecurity: Carbanak Attack, Tyupkin Malware Reveal a New Breed of ATM Fraud

When Kaspersky Lab's released its report in February detailing how the Carbanak gang, among other things, was able to manipulate ATMs so they'd dispense cash to money mules without any physical interaction, it made quite a few headlines.

Nigeria Cybercrime Bill Allows Govt To Spy on Nigerians, Prescribes Death Sentence For Hackers

A draft law empowering security agents to intercept, record and seize electronic communications among individuals has been crafted  by the Federal Government and sent to the National Assembly.

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.

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.

British Security Services Capable Of Bypassing Encryption, Draft Code Reveals

Britain’s security services have acknowledged they have the worldwide capability to bypass the growing use of encryption by internet companies by attacking the computers themselves.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Can We Really Trust The Public Sector With Our Private Data? - Morten Kjaersgaard

Large companies and public organizations get hacked daily. Your personal information is no longer private, but is widely becoming more and more public knowledge, as your data gets hacked and then leaked onto forums.

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".