The benefit of upskilling in different areas in your own time is that you set yourself apart when it comes to the job market, employers are typically looking for a few essential criteria, and almost everyone who gets to interview stage will have met that criteria. So how do you set yourself apart beyond that? By keeping yourself current, knowledgeable, skilled and passionate.

This is also true if you are looking into ethical hacking as a career switch, the more you can get across to a potential employer that you are a good learner, heavily invested in the topic and keen to be at the cutting edge, the more likely you are to rise above the other applicants.

The job market in the US, UK and Australia can be fiercely competitive, and not just in the economic hotspots like New York, London and Sydney, but also in towns and cities across the country, IT is needed everywhere.

So whether you’re looking for a job in Chelsea, London, or in Greater Manchester, such as Sale or Salford, you’ll need to show you’re up to the challenge. Below we have hand-picked competitive courses to help you advance your skills.

Complete Ethical Hacking Masterclass ($15)

This ethical hacking masterclass contains 65 lessons provided by HackerSpoilt. For $15 you will join the other 265 It enthusiasts enrolled on the course and get lifetime access to the content. This course covers everything from basic terminology to advanced exploitation and frameworks. When you’ve completed this comprehensive course, you will be to:

• Set up virtual penetration testing environments
• Know how to detect vulnerabilities in environments
• Understand advanced client-side and server-side exploitation
• Know how to attack both wired and wireless networks.

White Hat Hacker Training Bundle (Pay what you want)

We believe that everyone should have access to the leading education, which is why we’re including this pay what you want bundle. This course gets you access to 83 lessons, 10 hours of content and lifetime access. This course is designed to expand upon foundation knowledge of hacking, delving into a deeper layer where they will break down each attack into smaller components, so you understand the methodology behind the attacks.

The Computer Hacker Professional Certification Bundle ($49)

This course is a little more expensive at $49, but we believe it’s worth the money and boost to your skills. There are 64 lessons over 5 courses, and you’ll be joining a community of 331 people enrolled on the course. This course will help you get qualified as an ethical hacker. The course is comprehensive, covering attacks from the importance of social engineering, as well as more traditional web-based attacks.

Ethical Hacking for Beginners ($19)

This course is designed to be a starting point to your ethical hacking journey. The course will work its way through some common attacks, making sure you have a good understanding of the foundational concepts behind ethical hacking. What’s great about this course is that it isn’t all about reading and watching videos, there’s also an opportunity to get hands on experience testing the effectiveness of different defences.

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A statement released by the company said “no evidence” that any fraudulent activity taking place as a result of the breach. Dixons Carphone’s CEO Alex Baldock mentioned “We are extremely disappointed for any upset this may cause. The protection of our data has to be at the heart of our business, and we’ve fallen short here.”

Considering the size of the breach (5.9 m) it makes one of the biggest breaches involving a major telecommunication and electrical retailer and services company in UK. The incident happened just weeks after the GDPR data-protection legislation became effective.

At the moment it is not confirmed how the breach happened and who takes responsibility for it. Back in 2015 the company had another incident where bank data of millions of Carphone Warehouse customers was breached by hackers.

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Old school-style radio station break-in

During college days, what is the best way to confess your love to your sweetheart in a flamboyant manner?

One of the answers may be sending your “love” through airwave using public address (PA) system to let the whole world know. And that’s’ exactly what the pro-ISIS members were doing to a radio station in Sweden.

Well, we may have already known that the coalition forces have taken the last stronghold of ISIS in Raqqa. However, the extremism ideology still exist in the minds and some of the radicals decided to take their messages to the radio station.

The poor victim was a Malmo-based radio station with its morning show, being “hijacked” and played an ISIS propaganda song for 30 minutes. According to local media, the hack would be hard to trace and authorities are still investigating on this matter.

The Empire gets struck by the Kremlin

United Kingdom (UK)’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has confirmed Russian-backed cyberattacks on its energy grid, media and telecommunication over the past years.  The details of the attacks were not released in full, but prompted Theresa May, the prime minister of UK to issue this stern warning to Russia on Monday.

“We know what you are doing and you will not succeed.” addressed May regarding the Russian cyber-attacks on its soil.

UK has been on the iron sight of Russian-backed hackers such as the recent attempts to knock out parts of the national grid operating in Northern Ireland. In that incident, the engineers at Ireland’s electricity supply board (ESB) received emails from Russian-backed hackers in June 2017. The hacker’s intention was to trick staff into opening the email and downloading malicious software on to the ESB’s computer systems that could give them control of the network.

Apparently, the cyber-attack did not succeed as there was no power disruption in the power network but security analysts say the hackers could have stolen sensitive information such as passwords.

According to the NCSC’s data, since the formation of the security centre in October 2016, it had identified around 590 attacks or almost 2 cyberattacks per day. Among them, around 30 of the cyber-attacks were deemed as major enough that required a cross-government response.

Nothing is Forever

Los Angeles-headquartered fashion retailer, FOREVER 21 made an announcement on Tuesday, that there may be an unauthorized access to data from payment cards that were used at certain FOREVER 21 stores.

Thus, the retailer urged consumers to monitor their payment card statement closely and check if there any discrepancies. Upon seeing some unauthorized charge, consumers are to notify the bank immediately.

FOREVER 21 has since engaged a “leading security and forensics firm” to investigate on this issue and narrowed down their search to card transactions in FOREVER 21 stores from March 2017 to October 2017. The fashion retailer will schedule another additional notices to inform the public on the investigation outcome.

In conclusion, people hacks for a number of reasons, for fame, for fortune or simply out of boredom. However, the Hackwarenews team has increasingly seen cyber-attacks done for the sake of the country. Going forward, this trend is likely to continue and let hope the nations are prepared for this new kind of warfare.

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