Category: Computer Security

How Those Impacted by the 2015 Cyber Attack Against Anthem Who Were…

How Those Impacted by the 2015 Cyber Attack Against Anthem Who Were Under 18 at the Time Can Get a Credit Freeze Anthem is offering a special minor credit freeze program to parents and legal guardians of minors whose information was involved in the 2015 cyber attack against the company. There is no proof that anyone’s information was misused, but Anthem is nonetheless offering this extra layer of protection for children’s personal information.

Here Come the Drones-And Their Security Holes

Within the next half decade, commercial drones will likely be delivering us pizzas, burritos and probably a few nonedible items too, experts predict. But with that convenience will also come a new slate of digital dangers, from remotely disabled drones crashing through our windows to malicious payloads hacking into office Wi-Fi networks.

Hacked

Line Enterprises is a small, family-owned trucking company located in Raleigh, N.C. The company uses load brokers and vice-president Diane Burkle thought nothing of sending out standard contracts and invoices via e-mail. That is, until the payments stopped coming.

Hacked

Line Enterprises is a small, family-owned trucking company located in Raleigh, N.C. The company uses load brokers and vice-president Diane Burkle thought nothing of sending out standard contracts and invoices via e-mail. That is, until the payments stopped coming.

Global Cyber Security – Information Technology

Further, the End-Use sectors also analyzed include: Banking & Financial Sector, Public Sector & Aerospace, Medical Care Sector, Manufacturing Sector, IT & Telecom Sector, and Others. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, , and Rest of World.

Hackers take down Bingham County computer systems

Bingham County officials first realized something was amiss when, at 4 a.m. Wednesday, the county’s emergency dispatch employees suddenly were unable to access computer files. The ransomware attack by unknown hackers slowly infected all 28 of the county’s main computer servers.

ONIOFF – Onion URL Inspector

ONIOFF is basically an Onion URL inspector, it’s a simple tool – written in pure python – for inspecting Deep Web URLs . It takes specified onion links and returns their current status along with the site’s title.

Watch out for fake Facebook friend requests

Friend request from yourself? Watch out for Facebook fakes How to protect yourself from Facebook clones and scams Check out this story on ydr.com: http://usat.ly/2lqXtkW A few weeks ago, I got a Facebook request from “myself.” I recognized it right away as a common Facebook cloning scam.

Revenge hacker: 34 months, must repay Georgia-Pacific $1M

A fired computer expert who hacked into his former employer’s system has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in damages to Georgia-Pacific Corp. U.S. Attorney Walt Green in Baton Rouge says 44-year-old Brian Johnson, of Zachary, was sentenced Wednesday for one count of hacking into an industrial computer system to damage operations. According to his plea bargain, Johnson was an IT specialist and systems administrator at the Atlanta-based company’s paper mill in Port Hudson.

Russian cyberspies blamed for U.S. election hacks are now targeting Macs

Security researchers have discovered a macOS malware program that’s likely part of the arsenal used by the Russian cyberespionage group blamed for hacking into the U.S. Democratic National Committee last year. The group — known in the security industry under different names including Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, and APT28 — has been operating for almost a decade.

Russian cyberspies blamed for US election hacks are now targeting Macs

Security researchers have discovered a macOS malware program that’s likely part of the arsenal used by the Russian cyberespionage group blamed for hacking into the U.S. Democratic National Committee last year. The group, which is known in the security industry under different names, including Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, and APT28, has been operating for almost a decade.

Untangle Introduces Cloud-Based Centralized Management

Untangle Command Center enables IT administrators to quickly and simply manage their Untangle NG Firewall deployments from any browseri 1 2i 1 2without the costly purchase and maintenance headache of an on-premise solution. Command Center provides a visibility into and control over remote firewall deployments from an easy-to-use management console ideal for multi-site deployments and managed services providers .

Foreign ministry hack started in 2014

Rome, February 13 – The Italian foreign ministry first came under attack by hackers in spring 2014 and the attack was discovered in July of the following year, sources said Monday. Rome prosecutors opened an investigation following a report on the hack from a specialist IT crime unit of the postal police, sources said.

Home Ministry website hacked?

New Delhi, Feb 12 – The website of the Home Ministry was non-functional on Sunday and officials said experts were finding out if it had been hacked. The website’s landing page is drawing a blank and the site itself has become inaccessible.

Turkish Hacker Gets Sentenced To Eight Years In $55M US Scam

A prolific foreign hacker behind sophisticated cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison in rare win for law enforcement officials who have identified, but failed to arrest, hundreds of others like him. Prosecutors in federal court in Brooklyn had sought up to 14 years behind bars for Ercan Findikoglu, a Russian-speaking Turkish national so skilled with computers that he tracked the sprawling international heist in real-time to make sure a small army of thieves wouldn’t cheat him out of his share of the proceeds.

Data Breach at PIP Printing Company Leaks Thousands of Highly Sensitive Documents

An online security breach at a national printing chain leaked thousands of sensitive documents – from labor filings involving NFL players to lawsuits against Hollywood studios to personal immigration-related papers – raising the possibility that private information could end up in the wrong hands. The leak at PIP printing, which has more than 400 locations in 13 countries, went on for four months before it was repaired Tuesday, cybersecurity experts involved in investigating the breach told NBC News.