News Highlights This Week
A Michigan man is going to spend the next seven years and three months in prison for attempting a county jail’s computer system and altering prison records to get his friend released early and also received a fine of US $ 235,488. Read More: Man Who Hacked Jail Systems (TheHackerNews, April 30) Man who hacked jail systems to free associate sent behind bars (ZDNet, April 30)- A new report finds that the total amount of fraud against kids amounted to $2.6 billion and more than $540 million in out-of-pocket costs to families.
- The City of London police force has launched a new initiative designed to share threat intelligence and best practice advice on how to improve cyber-defense for the countless businesses in the Square Mile.
- webstresser.org, a Website linked to the global cyber-attacks which launched more than four million cyber-attacks against UK banks has been recently shut down. WebStresser was offering DDoS attack services, for as little as $14.99 per attack.
- Recently, Bitdefender researcher Marius Tivadar found a vulnerability in the way Windows handles NTFS file system images which triggers a blue screen of death. Tivadar published his proof-of-concept (PoC) code on GitHub, in which he was able to execute the denial-of-service (DoS) attack by using a handcrafted NTFS image.
- Hackers Target 3 Mexican Banks’ Real-Time Transfers. This isn’t the first time that Mexican banks have been targeted by hackers this year. Mexico’s central bank says “operational incidents” last week appear to have been the work of hackers attempting to mess with banks’ real-time payment transfers.
- Twitter is now caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
- Hackers build a ‘Master Key’ that unlocks millions of Hotel rooms. If you leave your laptop and passports in the hotel rooms, then beware. Your room can be unlocked by not only a malicious staff having access to the master key, but also by an outsider.
