The Twitter account of the famous rapper known as Hopsin has been taken over by hackers part of the UGNazi collective, as a form of protest against the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing Protection Act (CISPA). The artist’s website, myfunkvolume.com, has also been compromised. The hackers claim that they... |
18 May 2012
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An unknown “hacker” created a number of 5 Pastebin pastes that allegedly hold the account credentials of 55,000 Twitter users. The origin of the data in unknown, but we can say for sure that they’re not usernames and passwords that can access Twitter accounts.
The Hacker News has verified the data ... |
8 May 2012
10:31 GMT |
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An unknown hacker demonstrated that Mark Ruffalo, the actor that plays The Hulk in The Avengers movie, is not that tough when it comes to the Internet and took over his Twitter account. Forbes informs that the hacker used the compromised account to post links to adult services in Hollywood, but also criticized the ... |
7 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Not one month has passed since Al Arabyia’s English Facebook page was overtaken by hackers and it seems that the media company has fallen victim to cybercriminals once again. According to the organization, the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Al Arabiya News Channel were breached by unknown hackers who started... |
25 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Canadian singer Justin Bieber has a lot of fans, but as it turns out, there are a lot of people that dislike him a great deal. An individual from the latter category hacked his Twitter account and posted a tweet with the #biebermy[expletive] hashtag.
Justin Bieber proudly announced that there were 19 million Beliebe... |
28 March 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Nascar driver Mark Martin is the latest public figure to fall victim to hackers. On Saturday morning he found that his Twitter account had been taken over by someone who changed his name to “EpicSwagg”. “My account got jacked yesterday. I became EPICSWAGG 4 a while LMAO!” read a tweet posted ... |
22 March 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Individuals who follow Sky News on Twitter were faced not long ago with a post that claimed the controversial James Murdoch was arrested and taken into custody. Hours later, the news website revealed that the tweet didn't actually come from them, instead they suspect a hacking operation that targeted their socia... |
14 November 2011
05:15 GMT |
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The Twitter account of the health advice and information service was taken over by hackers in the effort of promoting a so-called Acai Berry miracle diet.Graham Cluley tipped us on the scheme that's designed to dupe unsuspecting users into buying a suspicious medical product.Not only that the message about the d... |
17 October 2011
03:41 GMT |
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A 22-year-old student was arrested by Thailand law enforcement in the case of the hacked Twitter account belonging to Yingluck Shinawatra, the recently appointed Prime Minister.
According to Graham Cluley, the suspect, Aekawit Thongdeeworakul, is a fourth year architecture scholar at Chulalongkorn University and f... |
7 October 2011
07:49 GMT |
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Yingluck Shinawatra, the prime minister of Thailand, had her personal Twitter account hacked in an attempt to stain the politician's image.
According to the Bangkok Post, authorities are committed to discover those responsible for the hit, the first clues indicating that the attack was launched from a prepai... |
3 October 2011
02:49 GMT |
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After hacking NBC News' Twitter account a short while ago, the Script Kiddiez strike back, this time the victim being USA Today's social media profile.
CNET was on alert and quickly noticed the hack, along with USA Today representatives who contacted the social network's staff to resolve the issue a... |
26 September 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Fake news about 9/11 airplane hijackings was posted on the Twitter account of NBC News, making everyone believe that the 10-year anniversary conspiracy theories became true.
The “news” informed followers that Flight 4782 has been hijacked and crashed into Ground Zero, the codename for the site where th... |
10 September 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The long promised tool that can be used to hijack tweets was recently released on the Anonymous hacker group's official blog, complete with download links, source files and how-to instructions.Even though the infamous cybercriminals claim that the new release is not a hacking tool or an exploit kit, its purpose... |
9 September 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Attackers identifying themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army" succeeded in hijacking Twitter's DNS records late on Thursday. The twitter.com domain and several other subdomains were pointed to a Web page displaying a political message taunting the United States.The attack happened under the cover of night, at aro... |
18 December 2009
10:10 GMT |
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A blogger trying to bypass Twitter's new nofollow policy for oauth client application links stumbled upon a massive persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which allowed him to insert potentially malicious JavaScript code into a tweet. The vulnerability could have been leveraged to steal session coo... |
26 August 2009
04:46 GMT |
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