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Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to built encryption backdoors in their secure messaging services. Source: Dutch Police Seize Two VPN Servers, But Without Explaining… Why?

In 2015, Murphy’s whole-of-government IT security survey uncovered 454 problems, up from 389 in 2014. It also identified a 3 percent decline in the number of agencies meeting the audit office’s bare minimum infosec benchmark, sending the proportion below half. “My practice is not to name agencies that have information system weakness for fear that thisContinue reading “Agencies refuse cyber quick-fixes.”

Is it this easy to break into your bank account? Fraud reporter Shari Vahl investigates how criminals have been able to break into Natwest customer bank accounts using only a mobile phone number and other publicly available information. She demonstrates how simple the process is by accessing a colleague’s account and transferring money out ofContinue reading “Is it this easy to break into your bank account?”

Civilians to help police investigate cybercrimes, says Theresa May Civilian recruits will help police solve cybercrime under an expansion of the role of volunteers in England and Wales, the home secretary has said. The plans include measures to give more power to support staff and volunteers. Forces will be able to identify volunteers who specialiseContinue reading “Civilians to help police investigate cybercrimes, says Theresa May”

Most common passwords revealed – and they’re ridiculously easy to guess – The Telegraphhttps://apple.news/AxSAzzJyvSnmYT6v6HUsXRg

BBC Hack May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History Cyber attacks are getting evil and becoming the worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every major websiteContinue reading “BBC Hack May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History”

Computer hackers growing in numbers as security breaches increase Partial transcript of a story from July 2015, click the link below for the full article at abc.net.au. TICKY FULLERTON: This week, customers using the Ashley Madison relationship cheating service got a nasty shock. Their personal details had been hacked. 30 million people held their breathContinue reading “Computer hackers growing in numbers as security breaches increase”

2015 data breaches up by 0.8%, as compared to 2014 According to the latest December 15, 2015 Identity Threat Resource Center (ITRC) data breach report—750 data breaches were recorded with more than 177 million records exposed. The ITRC breach list is a compilation of data breaches confirmed by various media sources and/or notification lists from state governmentalContinue reading “2015 data breaches up by 0.8%, as compared to 2014”