#Hackers Will Target Smart TVs, #Cybersecurity Firm Says

Hackers are opening new horizons: having learned how to break into Apple Inc.’s iPhones they may target smart televisions next, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab. In the future, hackers will be able to interfere with smart TVs — the latest generation of TVs that are connected to the Internet — and require users to send a paid text message to get them unlocked, Chief Executive Officer Eugene Kaspersky said in an interview.

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Hackers Redirect Malaysia Airlines Website

A group calling itself “Official Cyber Caliphate” said it hacked the official website of national carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS), but the airline said its data servers remained intact and passenger bookings were not affected. In a statement, MAS said the website was not hacked, but that users were redirected to a hacker website.

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Facebook Blocks Access to Anti-Muhammad Pages in Turkey

To avoid being banned throughout Turkey, Facebook has blocked Turkish users’ access to a number of pages containing content that the authorities had deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, according to a company employee with direct knowledge of the matter and a report by the state broadcaster TRT. The company acted to comply with an order from a Turkish court, the employee said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the company had not authorized the employee to speak publicly.

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Law Enforcement Complain to Google About Waze App

Law enforcement is concerned that the popular Waze mobile traffic app by Google Inc., which provides real-time road conditions, can also be used to hunt and harm police. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck complained in a letter to Google’s chief executive on Dec. 30 that Waze could be “misused by those with criminal intent to endanger police officers and the community.”

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WikiLeaks Protests Google’s Delay Disclosing Search Warrant

Google took almost three years to disclose to the open information group WikiLeaks that it had handed over emails and other digital data belonging to three of its staffers to the U.S. government, under a secret search warrant issued by a federal judge. WikiLeaks has written to Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, to protest that the search giant only revealed the warrants last month, having been served them in March 2012.

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#Lawyer #Hacker Now Helps Secure Smartphones

Signal 9 startup is designed to help users deflect cyber intrusions.

Jesse Londin, Law Technology News

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Solo practitioner Jeffrey Steinbrecher probably knows things about cybersecurity that you don't. The 30-year-old Massachusetts native, who specializes in criminal law, has a history of hacking—he hung out with hardcore hacker groups of the 1990s and writing for hacker newsletters and journals."I was never out to do any damage," Steinbrecher reflects. "It was a thrill. It was about sharing knowledge." Today, along with practicing law, the snowboarding and martial arts enthusiast is leveraging his know-how to build Signal 9, a company offering customized, secure Android smartphones to "privacy conscious" government, military and business clients. LTN had a recent conversation with him about his transition.

LTN: What was the genesis of Signal 9?

JS: I started Signal 9 in 2013. After looking for an Android phone that focused on privacy and security, we didn't like the options and decided to make our own. I had written a guide for members of a military community to use to secure their personal phones. Everyone liked it, so we started Signal 9 to provide these secured phones to the wider public.

We buy Google Nexus 5 handsets and design the phones to be resistant to forensic examination and eavesdropping. We build them without backdoors. We are working on the next iteration, which will include a panic button, stronger encryption and a software firewall.

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#BREAKING Defector: N. Korea running cyber terror network

BREAKING : New Message to #Sony from Hackers

#Healthcare Companies Targeted by Cyber Espionage Ring

Security researchers say they have uncovered a cyber espionage ring focused on stealing corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market, in an operation that has compromised sensitive data about dozens of publicly held companies. Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc., which disclosed the operation, said that since the middle of last year, the group has attacked email accounts at more than 100 firms, most of them pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.

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Europol Says 292 Counterfeiting Domains Seized

In a move to protect consumers, law enforcement officials have seized 292 domain names for sites that allegedly were selling counterfeit goods. The sites were being used to illegally sell counterfeit merchandise including luxury goods, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and pirated goods like movies and music, Europol said.

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Net Neutrality Could Increase Consumer Fees, Study Says

A new study suggests that strong controls on Internet providers might force Americans to pay more for their Internet. Internet service providers would be subject to more than $15 billion a year in new fees if the Federal Communications Commission decides to start regulating them with Title II of the Communications Act — the same tool the agency uses to police telephone service, according to Hal Singer and Robert Litan, two economists who support less-aggressive net neutrality rules.

·         Read the article: The Washington Post

Home Depot Faces 44 Lawsuits from Data Breach

The number of lawsuits facing Home Depot from its data breach has risen to at least 44, the company reported. In its third quarter report, The Home Depot Inc. gave investors an outline of the tsunami of litigation that’s rolling toward the home improvement giant related to the data breach.

·         Read the article: Atlanta Business Chronicle

Cameron Says Internet Firms Have ‘Social Responsibility’

The big Internet companies have a “social responsibility” to act on terrorist material posted online, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said. It comes after a report into Fusilier Lee Rigby’s murder found one of his killers spoke online about murdering a soldier five months before the attack.

·         Read the article: BBC News

Italian Proposal Could Weaken Net Neutrality

An initiative from the Italian government — occupying the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union — could substantially weaken proposed rules that would uphold net neutrality in Europe, according to a document seen by Real Time Brussels. The net-neutrality rules are part of wider proposals covering the EU telecoms secto

Israel diary: Among the cyberspooks

My first day is occupied with what Israel sees as a landmark event, its first cyber-security conference, called Cybertech. This nation is a world leader in the field, with much of the expertise emanating from the armed forces where all young Israelis serve and many get a technology training.I'm in Israel for four days, visiting what's been called the "start-up nation" to film a piece which will be shown on BBC World in mid February. But along the way I'm going to give some random first impressions of what I've seen on my travels.

In the bus taking the international press corps to the conference where prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak I get talking to the young diplomat who is our guide.

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Now look at reality: the Israelis are leading the World in CyberSecurity while the Arabs in Gaza are riding Donkey carts!

Man charged with computer hacking will be tried in Chicago

Posted: Jun 16, 2014 3:34 PM CDTUpdated: Jun 16, 2014 3:34 PM CDT

 

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -A Tennessee man believed to belong to the group behind dozens of high-profile computer attacks is facing federal hacking charges and will be prosecuted in Chicago.

Timothy Justin French, 20 of Morristown, Tenn., was charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago.

French and other members of “NullCrew” attacked corporations, educational institutions and government agencies, then released data and information, including usernames and passwords, a federal criminal complaint said.

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Hacker Released from Jail for ‘Extraordinary Cooperation’

A New York man who helped authorities infiltrate the world of computer hacking and disrupted 300 cyberattacks that included the United States military, courts and private companies was given a greatly reduced sentence and allowed to walk free. Federal prosecutors had sought leniency for the hacker, Hector Xavier Monsegur, citing what they called his “extraordinary cooperation” in helping the Federal Bureau of Investigations.  The man was part of the group Anonymous and used his knowledge of the shadowy hackers to disrupt planned attacks.

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