Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans via Kieren McCarthy – writing at El Reg – comes a bit of good news on a Wednesday in the glorious Pacific Northwest: Congress – just this morning, mind you – has passed the esteemed body’s new Anti-Robocall Act monikered the TRACED Act, and along with […]
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Identity theft used to be a more complicated, hands-on racket that included mail theft, dumpster diving, scam telephone calls and emailed offers. But hackers, aided by improvements in computer technology and internet accessibility, have introduced an illicit efficiency to the crime, stealing the personal information of […]
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The details of more than 1.3 million credit and debit cards – most of them from India – have been put up for sale on an underground forum. The database, which has been on the Joker’s Stash carding forum since 28 October, was spotted by […]
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Trump Administration, which vowed to implement “extreme vetting” at the borders, has implemented part of a controversial plan requiring some U.S. visa applicants to disclose their social media history before entering the country. The plan, which requires applicants to disclose user names for social media […]
OTTAWA — The person or persons who claimed responsibility for hacks and hack attempts against several municipal websites has had their Twitter account suspended for the third time in as many days and appears to have been either taken offline […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post […]
The good news, for computer security experts: People are no longer using “password” as their top password for online files and site entry. The bad news: The new top password is equally unimaginative — “123456.” That’s according to an annual survey from SpashData, a mobile software developing company that collected and compiled lists of those commonly used passwords […]