Hackers and Cyber Experts to Come Together at NullCon 2016

A crowd of IT professionals, cyber security experts, thought leaders and business decision makers along with the best minds in the hacking community will come together at annualNullcon security conference 2016 under the same roof to join their efforts in addressing the most critical issues of the Internet Cyberspace.

NullCon, appropriately dubbed "The Next Security Thing", creates opportunities for both presenting as well as participating in an intimate atmosphere with cyber security events offering the opportunity to learn about new threats, get valuable insights from leading experts, and network with other professionals.

Who goes to the Nullcon Conference, and Why?

Delegates from across the globe will be exposing the latest in information security, new cyber attack vectors, solutions to complex security issues with practical scenarios, thought-provoking ideas and research from the luminaries in the global IT security industry.

Additionally, a number of white hat hackers will be giving talks on the latest cyber threats, and the game-changing cyber security technologies and services they're bringing to fight cyber crime.

The major topics to be presented at Nullcon Conference 2016 will include:

• What Google knows about you and your devices, and how to get it
• Practical OS X Malware Detection & Analysis
• Privacy leaks on 4G-LTE networks
• Automatic Automotive Hacking
• Making Machines think about security for fun and profit
• Million Dollar Baby: Towards ANGRly conquering DARPA CGC
• Hitchhiker's Guide to Hacking Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
• Abusing Software Defined Networks

NullCon also builds the right niche network for you, both for information as well as business purposes.

Besides security talks, NullCon also provides 2-day workshops and security training.

Even Job seekers including IT professionals, engineers, product marketers, and sales executives are attending Nullcon in hopes of getting face time with the CEOs, CIOs and CISOs who are seeking experienced cyber talent.

NullCon Conference 2016 will be held at Goa (India) on 9-12th March 2016. March 9-10th are assigned for workshops and security training, and 11-12th March will be for security and hacking sessions

Hacker arrested for ATM Skimming escaped from Prison

A Romanian card skimmer arrested for being part of an international cybercrime group that used malware to plunder US$217,000 from ATMs has escaped from a Bucharest prison on Sunday morning (6th March).

Renato Marius Tulli, 34, was being held at Police Precinct 19 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, after being arrested together with 7 other suspects as part of a joint Europol, Eurojust, and DIICOT investigation on January 5, 2016.

Tulli was part of a criminal gang specialized in robbing NCR-based ATMs.

According to the federal authorities, the gang allegedly used a piece of malware, dubbedTyupkin, to conduct what's known as Jackpotting attack and made Millions by infecting ATMs across Europe and beyond.

Using Tyupkin malware, the criminals were able to empty cash from infected ATMs by issuing commands through the ATM's pin pad.

Authorities announced on Monday that Tulli escaped with Grosy Gostel, 38, a man held for robbery charges, while both of them and other prisoners were out in the precinct's yard taking their daily outdoor break, local media report.

Though Police caught Gostel, ATM malware man Tulli remains on the run.

The ATM hacker and robber managed to cut a hole in the police precinct's fence and then jumped an outer fence at the police station without being noticed by the two officers that were keeping watch.

The 2 Police officers that were on duty that day are now investigated on charges of negligence.

Tulli and his criminal gang raided ATMs between December 2014 and October 2015 in countries including Romania, Hungary, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Russia. Europol estimates the group caused damages to banks of around US$217,000 (€200,000).

Tyupkin malware the gang used has been upgraded in recent months. The malware is now dubbed as GreenDispenser and is being used to target ATMs across Mexico.

'Guccifer,' who Hacked former President, to be extradited to the US

Upon the request of US authorities, Marcel Lazar Lehel, well known as Guccifer, has finally been approved to extradite to the United States to face Computer Intrusion and Identity Theft Charges for 18 months.

Guccifer is an infamous Romanian hacker who was arrested in Romania for hacking into the emails and social networking accounts of numerous high profile the US and Romanian Politicians.

Romania's top court has approved a request by US authorities to extradite Guccifer to the United States, a source within Romania's DIICOT anti-organized crime and terrorism unit toldReuters.

Guccifer's well known political targets included:

• Bill Clinton (Former President)
• Hillary Clinton (U.S Presidential Candidate)
• George W. Bush (Former U.S. President)
• Colin Powell (former U.S. Secretary)
• George Maior (chief of the Romanian Intelligence Service)
• John Tenet (State Director of Central Intelligence for the United States CIA)
• Richard Armitage (Republican politician)
• Lisa Murkowski (U.S. Senator and former Secret Service Agent) and many more.

Guccifer rose into the popularity in 2013 after hacking into the email account of George W. Bush and leaking Bush's personal photographs and artwork, including two self-portraits: one in the shower and one in the bathtub.

The same hacker was responsible to crack into the AOL Account of Bush’s Sister, Dorothy Bush Koch and targeted a number of high-profile celebrities, including Nicole Kidman, ComedianSteve Martin, Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Actress Mariel Hemingway, 'Sex and the City' authorCandace Bushnell, Biographer Kitty Kelley, released some of Hillary Clinton's private emails and many more.

The 42-year-old hacker had also claimed that Bush was a member of Ku Klux Klan – a White Supremacist Racist group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, allegedly having total 5,000 to 8,000 members.

This intensified leakage had caused many repercussions on many topics like the romantic relationships between Colin Powell and Corina Cretu (Romanian Politician), even though both denied the statement.

If you want to explore more about the Guccifer Leaks, you may visit the site named 'The Smoking Gun' to which he published the leaked contents (don't expect a Wikileaks model).

Guccifer was serving as a Taxi Driver when Romania's DIICOT anti-organized crime and terrorism unit arrested him. He kickstarted his career as a Hacker at the age of 35.

According to his wife, Guccifer did most of his hacking from the quiet Sâmbăteni, which is located in the Draculan Village Transylvania.

Guccifer was sentenced for intrusion charges to popular profiles by the Romanian court to four years in jail in 2014 "with the aim of getting ... confidential data" and is serving another three-year term for other offences.