Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – What's Happened So Far

Top Story— Facebook has just lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days—that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation and almost three times that of Snapchat.

Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by British data analytics firm 'Cambridge Analytica,' who reportedly helped Donald Trump win the US presidency in 2016.

Memcrashed – Memcached DDoS Exploit Tool

Memcrashed is a Memcached DDoS exploit tool written in Python that allows you to send forged UDP packets to a list of Memcached servers obtained from Shodan.

This is related to the recent record-breaking Memcached DDoS attacks that are likely to plague 2018 with over 100,000 vulnerable Memcached servers showing up in Shodan.

ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries

Governments in Turkey and Syria have been caught hijacking local internet users' connections to secretly inject surveillance malware, while the same mass interception technology has been found secretly injecting browser-based cryptocurrency mining scripts into users' web traffic in Egypt.

Governments, or agencies linked to it, and ISPs in the three countries are using Deep Packet Inspection technology from Sandvine (which merged with Procera Networks last year), to intercept and alter Internet users' web traffic.

Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub's code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps.

Interestingly, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attack.

Earlier this week we published a report detailing how attackers could abuse Memcached, popular open-source and easily deployable distributed caching system, to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attack than its original strength.

The Air Force requested $30M to develop a ‘cyber carrier’

Much like traditional military capabilities have platforms from which to launch attacks, Cyber Command and the services’ cyber components need a comparable platform.

This effort underway is called the unified platform, which some have equated to a “cyber carrier,” and the Department of Defense’s budget request for fiscal 2019 describes a plan to develop such a program.

Cybercrime is on the rise - Rise to the challenge

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Cybersecurity Conferences in Israel 2017 – 2018

Why Is Israel Such A Major Player in Cybersecurity?

Everyone working in Cybersecurity will agree that Israel is a big player with regards to pioneering and implementing Information IT Security. Period.

Point in case: Israel has the world’s second-largest cyber market, second only to the United States.

The obvious answer why Israel is a heavy-hitter in the Cybersecurity Conference scene as well as in the Global Industry is because of the necessity they have to protect themselves.

The State of Israel has had to be continually vigilant to handle enemies and cyber threats, and, hardly surprising, protecting Israel is an ongoing major focus of Israeli governmental strategy. As a result, the Israeli military invests places significant investment in computing technologies, particularly in the intelligence branches and within cyberterrorism. For those that are interested in the Israeli Governments drive to counter cyberterror go ahead and take a look at Israel’s legendary elite cyber intelligence unit: 8200.

Get the Ultimate 2018 Hacker Bundle – Pay What You Want

Due to the growing number of threats in the computer world, ethical hackers have become the most important player for not only governments but also private companies and IT firms in order to safeguard their systems and networks from hackers trying to infiltrate them.

By 2020, employment in all information technology occupations is expected to increase by 22 percent, where demand for ethical hackers and IT security engineers will be the strongest. So, it's high time that you should start preparing yourself in the field of ethical hacking.

Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins Universuty

Johns Hopkins University (JHU), a world leader in teaching and research*, can provide you with the technical foundation and knowledge you need to meet our nation’s growing demand for highly skilled professionals in the fields of information security and information assurance.

With full- and part-time opportunities, evening and weekend classes at campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area, and online, we provide degree and certificate programs designed to meet your personal needs and professional goals.

Iran’s Teaching Hacking in High School

Courses in computer hacking will be added to the senior high school curriculum in Iran. The announcement was made in mid-August, in order, I assume, to drum up interest and excitement. The Iranians want to enlist high school students to hack foreign drones. I kid you not, this is real.

The announcement came from FARS, a semi official media outlet that is the voice of the Iranian Republican Guard Corp (IRGC). General Ali Fazali the acting commander of the Basij militia gave the course a name. He explained that the new study is to be called “Defensive Readiness.”

Cyber Security Academic Programs

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