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Jul02

NZ Government Invests $8M To Keep Residents Safe

Posted by Shivniel Gounder on Jul 2, 2019

NZ Government Invests $8M To Keep Residents Safe

The New Zealand Government have announced the release of New Zealand’s Cyber Security Strategy 2019, which sees the government investing $8 million on cyber security. Kris Faafoi, puts an emphasis on partnership as crucial to secure the infrastructure and the residents of New Zealand. “The new Strategy highlights four fundamentals for cyber security in New Zealand: Partnerships are crucial; people are secure and human rights are respected online; economic growth is enhanced, and national security is protected.” – Kris Faafoi. The strategy sets out five priority areas for action to deliver the vision: builds and maintains trustis people-centric, respectful, and inclusivebalances risk with being agile and adaptiveuses our collective strengths to deliver better results and outcomesis open and accountable CERT NZ also sees an increase in funding of $9.3 million. “As part of the Wellbeing Budget, the Government has funded a number of new or expanded initiatives to keep new Zealanders cyber secure and build a secure digital nation. Two initiatives that directly support the new Cyber Security Strategy are funding to address emerging priorities and increased funding for CERT NZ to address growing demand for its services. “It is important to stress that a focus on cyber security is critical across society and the economy. This is why the Strategy also sets out the Government’s priorities on cybercrime and how New Zealand will continue to champion a free, open and secure internet internationally.” A detailed report can be access through here. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like...

Jun16

TLS Pages Used For Phishing

Posted by Shivniel Gounder on Jun 16, 2019

TLS Pages Used For Phishing

Do not trust TLS pages at face value Everyone has been taught and reminded frequently to trust TLS based websites, look at the padlock sign, https and green bars. Since most people look at only these things and believe the website is secure, it is the same reason it is used for malicious activities by hackers. By trusting the website, hackers abuse the trust between the user and the website and lead them to phishing pages. FBI has issued a warning stating not to simply trust emails, website pages, question the intent of the content and do not trust websites just because it is HTTPS based. ” Unfortunately, cyber criminals are banking on the public’s trust of “https” and the lock icon. They are more frequently incorporating website certificates—third-party verification that a site is secure—when they send potential victims emails that imitate trustworthy companies or email contacts. These phishing schemes are used to acquire sensitive logins or other information by luring them to a malicious website that looks secure. ” – FBI And the biggest batch that is active: https://monitor[82 ones from 01 to 181].azurewebsites[.]net/Yes, you heard that right: this batch is alone consist of 82 domains. Yes, 82.😂Better I not comment this…Thanks to @JayTHL for getting the whole list. pic.twitter.com/FJiOWVErmD— MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) May 15, 2019 What should we do? For starters, always question the emails received. If the email is from a trusted source, it could also have been compromised. Always make sure the email is from the person it seems. Most often hackers use malicious “similar” email address on face value, but when looked at fully, it is obvious that those emails are from different subdomain made to look similar. These emails are often longer than usual addresses. More campaigns needed to be carried out and to help users to verify the content and users. While the protocols are being manipulated by hackers, HTTPS is still good, it is still better than HTTP. But, with any good thing, there will always be someone looking to abuse it. So stay vigilant and look out for things which seem unusual. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like...

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Aug11

CIA Tool Captures Still Images From Live Video Stream

Posted By Shivniel Gounder on Aug 11, 2017

CouchPotato WikiLeaks has exposed CIA tool which captures images from live video streams remotely. While there are no specific documentations how CIA are able to hack the machine remotely, it could be assumed that the tool is used with other malware by CIA. Not only the tool can capture images but also save the video as AVI. It also has the ability to capture with and without the audio. “Today, August 10th 2017, WikiLeaks...

Oct17

US Government To Launch A Cyber Attack Against Russian Government

Posted By Shivniel Gounder on Oct 17, 2016

“we’re sending a message” to Putin The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed...

Oct11

Apple May Log All Your Contacts

Posted By Shivniel Gounder on Oct 11, 2016

End to End Encryption Isn’t So Secure After All When company chooses to log information which isn’t necessary and breach privacy acts, end to end encryption is no use. Apple promises that your iMessage’s are secure and safe. Unfortunately this is not the case. Documents obtained by The Intercept, show’s that Apple logs your IP addresses and contacts stored on your phone even though no communication were carried...

Sep25

Weekly Compile Of Cyber Security Threats and Exploits – 24-Sept-2016

Posted By Shivniel Gounder on Sep 25, 2016

Hacker Makes 4BTC With Mamba Ransomware Being Ransomware developer is a real thing now. Instead of encrypting files now, a new Ransomeware dubbed as Mamba Ransomware encrypts whole hard drive partitions. “Mamba encrypts the whole partitions of the disk,” Marinho said. “It uses a disk-level cryptography and not a traditional strategy of other ransomware that encrypts individual files.”. The Ransomware edits Master Boot Record and...

Mar31

FBI ordered By Judge to Reveal Exploit Code For Tor

Posted By Shivniel Gounder on Mar 31, 2016

Should FBI Reveal The Exploit Code? Last month FBI were ordered to reveal the exploit source for Tor, the ordered came after FBI used the exploit to hack visitors of possibly the largest child pornography site called PlayPen. FBI are fighting back because it only shows how the hacking code was deployed. FBI are arguing that it is not necessary for the case and have asked the judge to reconsider the motion. FBI used a NIT, Network...

Mar29

The Justice Department Successful Hacks Into iPhone Without Apple

Posted By Shivniel Gounder on Mar 29, 2016

Will Justice Department Disclose The Vulnerability The long on going case of the US Justice Department compelling Apple to create a backdoor which would allow the authorities to access Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman which took lives of 14 people in San Bernardino has now come to a close. The authorities hinted earlier that they have found a third party hacker which would allow them to hack into the iPhone without altering any data. This...

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