Hunting in the Cyberspace

Cyber Theft

Online payment systems may not guarantee the safety of your money – $81M stolen from central bank of Bangladesh in 2016 cyber heist

Drugs, information and your credit card data – Take your pick in the online black markets
 

Identity Theft

Is your child’s identity at risk? – Young mum experiences ‘digital kidnapping’
 

Cyber Bullying

Cyber bullying can kill - How it can lead to suicide
 

Ransomware

Your data and devices could be held hostage – Find out the anatomy of a ransomware
 

How is your data retrieved?

Social Engineering Attacks

Baiting – Watch what happens when you plug a foreign device into your computer

Phishing – Personal details targeted in phishing emails that appears as Google Docs

Pretexting – Your board director can be an impersonator to get your phone records (Hewlett-Packard incident)

Read more on social engineering fraud

Oversharing

Social media alone can help cyber criminals know you better– 30% of internet users vulnerable to attacks

Google tracks you by what you share – Here’s how to stop it

Think before you post – When it can cost you your job
 

What can you do?

Be discreet about your privacy settings and ‘check-in’s.

Be sure you know who people are before accepting connections

Be wary about messages from unfamiliar emails

References

BBC. (2010, August 25). Secret US military computers 'cyber attacked' in 2008. Retrieved from BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11088658

BBC. (2013, January 31). New York Times 'hit by hackers from China'. Retrieved from BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-21271849

Broad, W. J., Markoff, J., & Sanger, D. E. (2011, January 15). Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay. Retrieved from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html

CNET. (2017, May 15). WannaCry ransomware: Everything you need to know. Retrieved from CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/wannacry-wannacrypt-uiwix-ransomware-everything-you-need-to-know/

Fiegerman, S. (2016, December 15). Yahoo says data stolen from 1 billion accounts. Retrieved from CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-breach-billion-users/index.html?iid=EL

Jones, S. (2014, August 29). Ukraine: Russia’s new art of war. Retrieved from Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/ea5e82fa-2e0c-11e4-b760-00144feabdc0

Lee, T. B. (2013, November 1). How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees. Retrieved from Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/01/how-a-grad-student-trying-to-build-the-first-botnet-brought-the-internet-to-its-knees/?utm_term=.7cf9a699c497

Russell, A. (2004, February 28). CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline. Retrieved from Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1455559/CIA-plot-led-to-huge-blast-in-Siberian-gas-pipeline.html

Telegraph. (2013, January 14). Red October computer virus found. Retrieved from Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9800946/Red-October-computer-virus-found.html