Hactivist group Anonymous has apparently hacked at least two of North Korea's government-run online sites yesterday, as tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula.
The North's Uriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr accounts stopped sending out content typical of that posted by the regime in Pyongyang, such as photos of North's leader Kim Jong Un meeting military officials.
The Twitter account belonging to the BBC's weather service was hacked on Thursday, the public broadcaster said.
The "Syrian Electronic Army", a group of pro-Assad hackers and online activists that has already disrupted the Facebook page of Barack Obama, claimed responsibility for
the breach.
Twitter has come to the attention of MP George Galloway, who thinks it should defer to the wishes of local authorities or be sanctioned by the government.
Galloway, Member of Parliament for Bradford West, has filed an early day motion called "Twitter and the detection of crime".
Several visits to bars when I was 13 taught me a simple thing: it's rarely good to insult someone who's larger and more muscular than you are.
The Web, though, offers some theoretical protection from this maxim. The object of your bile doesn't know who you are.
Amsterdam, 1 March: Edward Schwartz, Chief Information Security Officer at global information security giant, RSA, will be delivering his Day 1 keynote address on “Embracing the Uncertainty of Advanced Attacks with Big Data Analytics“ at the annual HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam on the 10th of April.
Twitter is adopting Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), a new specification designed to authenticate emails so users don't fall for phishing attacks.
The technology helps prevent users from receiving phishing emails puporting to come from Twitter, among the most abused brands on the web.
While most Americans were winding up their holiday weekends last Monday, the phones at the Vancouver, British Columbia, headquarters of HootSuite, a social media management company, began to ring.
Burger King’s Twitter account had been hacked. Its logo had been replaced by a McDonald’s logo, and rogue announcements began to appear. One was that Burger King had been sold to a competitor; other posts are unprintable.
‘Tis the season to be hacked, I guess. Twitter joined a bunch of other companies in revealing that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that may have exposed the information for about 250,000 users. While the data that was allegedly exposed, including encrypted/salted versions of passwords, was not as bad as in some other attacks recently, Twitter did take some proactive measures in resetting passwords (and letting the users know that they need to set a new one) and revoking session tokens.
It was just going to be another boring day on the internet when along came a hilarious hacker with a taste for McDonald’s, Gucci Mane and caps lock. Is a criminal mastermind behind the @BurgerKing (and likely @Jeep) takeover? Nope — just a guy who plays shows in Rhode Island who left an unfortunate internet paper trail.
Zendesk said Thursday a hacker gained access to support information for some customers of its online help desk software.
"We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week," wrote Mikkel Svane, Zendesk's CEO. "As soon as we learned of the attack, we patched the vulnerability and closed the access that the hacker had."
