Is today Twitter hack day and nobody said anything?
Two separate hack attacks today have targeted one the Web's largest blogs and one of its largest mini-bloggers, and one of these entities appears to be fighting back. But it's unclear just what Ashton Kutcher plans to do should he find the user that simultaneously broke into his Twitter and Foursquare accounts today.
We’re still working to confirm this, but it looks like someone has finagled their way into Lady Gaga’s insanely popular Twitter account. That, or the pop icon really did just offer free iPad 2s to all 17 million people that follower her (through the shadiest looking website in the world, no less.)
Does posting thousands of threatening messages to Twitter targeted at single person constitute online stalking? Legally, the answer is now officially no.
Judge Roger W. Titus ruled, in the case of the U.S. versus William Lawrence Cassidy, that harassing messages posted to Twitter or blog sites are the digital equivalent of soapbox rants, and are thus protected forms of free speech.
Twitter has acquired Whisper Systems, a mobile device security company co-founded by well-known security researcher Moxie Marlinspike.
The company, which makes mobile encryption applications for Android devices, announced it was joining Twitter on late Monday.
A Starbucks-themed scam has been spotted targeting users of both Facebook and Twitter users and it does so not via messages sent from compromised accounts, but through spam emails.
The emails tout Starbucks cards for free coffee and provide a link. When the victim follows it, he is faced with the following page (or the "Facebook" equivalent - "Share" instead of "Tweet"):
NHS Direct, the UK helpline which provides expert health advice via the telephone and internet, has had its Twitter account taken over by spammers promoting an Acai Berry diet.
Because the NHS Direct service is well-known in the UK for providing health advice, it's possible that some followers might have thought that the link was genuine, and clicked on it.
Fortunately, Twitter is now identifying the webpage pointed to by the shortened link as "potentially harmful", but anyone who had clicked would have been taken to a bogus news website promoting an Acai Berry diet:
The Twitter account of Thailand's prime minister was hacked on Sunday by someone posting criticism of her policies, a government official said.
The unknown hacker ended a series of at least eight postings on the account of Yingluck Shinawatra with a taunt: "If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country? Think about it."
Over months, Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron built a Twitter following of about 250,000 people by posting more than a dozen messages a day, many of them skewering President Hugo Chavez.
On Aug. 29, Padron issued a typical shot: "Chavez knows of the immense death toll that there is in this country, so why such indifference to the subject of insecurity?"
The same group that hacked NBC News' Twitter account on September 9 and sent tweets about a bogus attack on Ground Zero apparently grabbed hold of USA Today's Twitter feed today and fired off a clutch of messages.
The taunting tweets from someone claiming to be The Script Kiddies asked if Twitter had the courage to suspend the group again and encouraged Twitter users to vote for the next account to be hacked. "Fox News, Wal-mart, Unilevel, Pfizer, NBC and now USA Today. who's next? Vote now!" read one of the tweets.
The long-awaited event largely promoted by the hacker group Anonymous has begun, gathering between one and two thousand protestors that occupied Zuccotti Park to state their demands.
Presstorm covered the whole thing so far, following many of the tweets posted on Twitter relating to the manifestation.
