Bugs/Viruses/Malware etc

[Guest]

posted elsewhere before about smart tv's poss 'listening' in.

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heres one....

'...the documents indicate, infected (tv) sets were made to covertly record audio, which would later be transferred over the internet to CIA computer servers once the TVs were fully switched back on, allowing their wi-fi links to re-establish....'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39193008

 

'"'Year Zero' introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal, and dozens of 'zero day' weaponized exploits against a wide range of US and European company products, [including] Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung's TVs, which are turned into covert microphones," the WikiLeaks team said in a statement....Year Zero is only the first part of a larger release of information codenamed "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, and is touted as the largest-ever publication of confidential documents on the intelligence agency..'

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/07/wikileaks_cia_cyber_spying_dump/

[Guest]

'The payday loan firm Wonga has said up to 270,000 of its customers may have been affected by a data breach......'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39544762

[mikeymack2002]

Do you want to see cyber attacks live if so then this may be for you see here >> http://map.norsecorp.com/#/ wait a few minutes then the screen shows just how big and bad things are in the virtual world. It also make you think its a great screen saver too....

 

 

Then if you hover your pointer over one of the 'spots' you get even more detail (visual)

[Guest]

'...five prisoners in the US who built two personal computers from parts, hid them behind a plywood board in the ceiling of a closet, and then connected those computers to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's (ODRC) network to engage in cybershenanigans....And they would have got away with it too, but for... Websense.......'

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/12/prisoners_built_computer_connected_to_states_network/

[Guest]

'Malware has infected backend systems used by Brit high street chain Debenhams – and swiped 26,000 people's personal information in the process. The cyber-break-in targeted the online portal for the retailer's florist arm, Debenhams Flowers. Miscreants had access to the internal systems at Ecomnova, the biz that runs the Debenhams Flowers business, for more than six weeks... ' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/debenhams_flowers_breach/

 

and, of course google (now locked down) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/03/google_docs_hit_phishing_email_campaign/

[Guest]

as has been widely reported re.

some current security info re the 'wannacrypt' ransomware

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/13/wannacrypt_ransomware_worm/