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Bitcoin users are opening their wallets to hackers through mobile networks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin make a big deal of their security; theoretically, they are almost impossible to hack. Every transaction is stored in a ‘digital ledger’, shared across multiple machines; an attacker would need to compromise every computer in the chain to successfully hack the system. However, the digital wallets that…
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Democrats’ Biggest Cybersecurity Upgrade Is Their New Tech Chief
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The Democratic National Committee is upping its cybersecurity efforts — and it’s getting some help from a former Silicon Valley exec. Back in June, the committee hired Raffi Krikorian — a former top engineer at Uber and Twitter — as chief technology officer. Since his hire, Krikorian has instituted better…
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Windows 10 users need to update their PC TODAY, or hackers could take control
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Windows 10 users at a risk from a “critical” vulnerability that lets cybercriminals take over their PCs, unless they update their computers now, Microsoft have patched dozens of major security vulnerabilities that affect all supported versions of Windows. One “critical” vulnerability enabled a hacker to exploit how Windows Search handles…
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Free Wi-Fi has driven 88% of Canadians to put their personal info at risk
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A strong Wi-Fi signal is one major factor that helps Canadians decide where they want to stay when they go away for long weekends, said a risk report released by Norton last month. And while a hefty majority of Canadians believe their information is safe while […]
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Arizona State University student threatens to send suitors’ ‘unsolicited’ pictures to their mothers
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Hackers threaten to send Android users’ private photos and messages to all their friends and family
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Thousands of Android users are being held to ransom by a new strain of malware known as LeakerLocker. The so-called ransomware is being used by hackers to extort victims by threatening to leak their personal information to all their contacts unless a ransom is paid. This information could potentially include…
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Poorer Nations Are Teaching Their Richer Counterparts About Cybersecurity
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A new United Nations (U.N.) survey on cybersecurity found Singapore is taking a close to perfect approach at the same time that rich countries have a lot of gaps in their security defenses when it comes to defending against cyberattacks. According to a news report in Reuters, citing the results…
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Hackers learn from their mistakes — why can’t we?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
It was only two months ago that the WannaCry ransomware attack hit global computers, creating headlines that warned everyone to update their computers and avoid risky online behaviour. Anyone, and that included companies, who failed to do so was at risk of losing any data stored on their computers. Panic…
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How Steve Jobs And Steve Wozniak Started Their Career As Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Did you know that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the co-founders of the giant Apple Inc. had started out as hackers who ended up building an entire kingdom out of the lessons they learnt in their hacking days. One of their hacking works built in the 1970s known as a…
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