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Hackers spread ISIS propaganda by hijacking Twitter accounts
 An investigation from TechCrunch found that the impacted accounts appear to have been overtaken in recent days and weeks after years of inactivity; Twitter is implying that it's email providers like Yahoo and Hotmail, which deactivate accounts and recycle email addresses, that are part of the problem... |
By Christopher Carbone  |
UK Conservative Party conference App Leaks MP Personal Details
 Some phone numbers and email addresses for high-profile British MPs were shared on Twitter, and a few of them even received prank calls and messages. This data lead was due to a mobile conferencing app for the UK's Conservative Party. When things is related to security, you must get qualified guys to do, otherwise you take a risk of privacy sharing on Twitter or Facebook, especially your privacy is interesting in public... |
| By Catalin Cimpanu |
Did You Update Twitter Password That May Be Leaked
 Twitter masks passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter’s system. Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process. Twitter itself found this error, removed the passwords & are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again. In the meantime, Twitter is asking 300+ Million users to change their passwords. Did you do it? |
| By Chaim Gartenberg |
33 million Twitter passwords leaded: 120000 used 123456
 Not use 123456 as passwords! Hacker leaks passwords for 33 million Twitter accounts, 120000 accounts used 123456. |
| By Sarah Frier |
Mark Zuckerberg social media accounts get hijacked
 Billionaire founder of Facebook's password is still just a password. It isn’t definitely safe as ours. This is a story about how his social media accounts was hacked. |
| By ALFRED NG |
Chinese Tycoons Party Officials Data Leaked on Twitter
 Personal information on dozens of Chinese Communist Party officials and captains of industry from Jack Ma to Wang Jianlin may have been exposed on Twitter in one of the country’s biggest online leaks of sensitive information. Posts on Twitter from an account under the name “shenfenzheng” -- which has since been frozen -- claimed to show... |
| By Bloomberg News |
Hackers Release Contact Information for More Than 20,000 FBI Employees
 A group of hackers followed through on its threat to release sensitive details about FBI employees by publishing the contact information for more than 20,000 bureau workers Monday afternoon the day after it posted similar data concerning nearly 10,000 Department of Homeland Security employees. Using the Twitter handle @DotGovs, the hackers... |
| By Kathryn Blackhurst |
Sony network hacked, executive's American Airlines flight diverted after hacker group's tweets
 Hackers infiltrated Sony's PlayStation Network and disrupted the travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane. Sony Corp. says American cut short the executive's flight on Sunday and made an unplanned landing in Phoenix. The plane with 179 passengers and a crew of six... |
| By DAVID KOENIG and YURI KAGEYAMA |
Tweetdeck hacked: Users urged to log out to apply fix
 (Jun. 11, 2014) The Twitter dashboard service known as Tweetdeck faced a security breach on Wednesday. As Sean O’Shea reports, thousands of unusual messages were spewed through the service after an Austrian teen says he found a security vulnerability. TORONTO – TweetDeck users are being urged to log out of their accounts and change their... |
| By Nicole Bogart Global News |
Popular 'UberFacts' Twitter May Have Been Stolen — And The Hacker Is Taunting The Account Owner
 The insanely-popular Twitter of UberFacts was apparently hacked on Wednesday evening, and whoever is behind the account-grab is taunting its original owner and sending out bizarre tweets. At 10:17 p.m. PDT, the account with roughly 6.7 million followers tweeted out a factoid about baby seals. But shortly after, a hacker appears to have taken... |
| By PAUL SZOLDRA |
US Navy sailor hacked government computers
 A U.S. Navy man allegedly led a group of hackers to steal secret government information and shared the information on Twitter. Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, of Chantilly, Va., was a systems administrator for nuclear aircraft carrier the USS Harry S. Truman at the time of the alleged crimes. The group, known as Team Digi7al, is accused of... |
| By NINA GOLGOWSKI , MICHAEL WALSH |
Twitter security updates to prevent hacked accounts
 Twitter has announced an update to its security features,including revised methods for resetting passwords, aimed at preventing account hacking. A post on the social network's official blog explained how the way passwords are retrieved and reset has been changed to make it more secure for users to regain access to their account if they forget a... |
| By Edd Gent |
AOL email hacked: Several users complain about compromised accounts
 You've got (spam) mail. Several AOL users are complaining on Twitter that their email accounts have been hacked and are being used to send out spam to others. Multiple users have said that their accounts have been affected despite not being used in a long time. Among them is Los Angeles Times Food Editor Russ Parsons. "I've gotten a couple of... |
| By Salvador Rodriguez |
The Albuquerque Police Department website was down Sunday after an apparent cyber-attack.
 'Anonymous' takes credit for crash APD website A department spokesperson said the attack happened around 11 a.m. Sunday. As part of the attack, the personal information of high-ranking police officials was released. "We can confirm that the website disruption is due to a cyber-attack," APD Officer Simon Drobik said. On Twitter, a group called... |
| By Megan Cruz |
Kingaroy man held over computer hacking of US gaming site
 A KINGAROY man has been caught in a multinational hacking investigation involving the FBI after he was found to have allegedly accessed the private files of a US gaming company. Police allege the 21 year old also hacked the company’s Twitter account and shared information and screenshots he had obtained. They also allege the man created a website... |
| By KERSTIN KEHREN |
Russian News Website Hacked After Military Action in Ukraine
 A Russian news website was hacked temporarily, one day after the country’s military escalated an already tense situation in Ukraine. The website RT.com, or Russia Today, was hacked this morning, the news site confirmed via its Twitter acount, but did not say who might be responsible. The RT website is the online presence of Russian news RT... |
| By illian |
'Don't take Qatar's blood money' - Barcelona's Twitter accounts hacked
 Three of the Blaugrana's social media profiles were infiltrated by what appeared to be an organisation known as the Syrian Electronic Army criticising the club's links with Qatar Barcelona's official Twitter accounts were hacked on Tuesday following their 2-0 win over Manchester City in the Champions League. All of the posts contained a link to... |
| By Miles Chambers |
Skype Fixes Major Password Security Hole
 It's not a good week for password security. Only a few days after Twitter reset a number of passwords because of a security breach, Skype also has had a password security problem. Early this morning it was found that Skype's password reset tool had been compromised. Discovered by Russian hackers and first reported by the tech site the Next Web,... |
| By Tim Smith |
India’s Internet Curbs Under Legal Cloud
 India’s crackdown on the Internet has caused much debate. But was it legal? India’s government says its moves this week to block websites, Twitter accounts and news portals was necessary to reduce simmering tensions over ethnic violence in the northeast of the country. Authorities have far-reaching powers to do just that, laid down in rules... |
| By Rumman Ahmed and R. Jai Krishna |