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...
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...
Microsoft Support Agent’s Credentials Hacked
Support Agent’s Targeted Microsoft have sent out a letter to it’s affected users regarding the incident which caused “limited” number of accounts being compromised. According to Microsoft, support agent’s credentials were hacked and hackers were able to view folder names, subject lines and the email accounts the account has communicated with in the past. Microsoft urges that hackers were not able to view...
Facebook Gets Teens Data Just For $20
Ethical? In recent days, Facebook has been caught secretly paying $20 per month to teens in order to access their data. By connecting through the “Facebook Research” VPN, Facebook was given access to all user data, network traffic and root access to the devices. The age group of the users went from 13-35 years old. The users were also told to screenshot their Amazon history as well. The iOS version of the app has...
US Government Bans Kaspersky Lab
Russian Intelligence and Kaspersky Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke issued a BOD in order to identify and remove any Kaspersky Lab products and related entities. This comes after accusations of Kaspersky Lab handing out data to Russian intelligence. US governments are avoiding any relations with the Russian intelligence after the state sponsored attack which was carried out earlier. Are they? All fronts? But this...
Chinese Man Jailed For Selling VPN
Bypassing The Great Firewall of China A Chinese man has been jailed “on suspicion of providing tools for illegal control of a computer information system.”. The illegal control of a computer, in this case, is VPN software. “The court held that the defendant Deng Jiewei disregarded state law, by providing tools specifically for the invasion and illegal control of computer information systems procedures,” the Guandong Province’s...