Tag: facebook
Facebook Hackers Busted in $850 Million Theft
Fernando Alfonso III Daily Dot Facebook has worked with the FBI to take down 10 Facebook hackers responsible for stealing $850 million over the last two years. The hackers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. were responsible for “more than 11 million compromised computer systems [...]
Social Media Insurance Protects Your Facebook Account From Hackers
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Social media insurance? Can you believe it? I can. According to statistics, 7 Facebook accounts are hacked every second. How many of you have either had your social media account hacked or know someone who has? Most of us have seen those notorious posts on a friend’s Facebook profile [...]
Fake Facebook Account Hacking App Goes Viral
Olivia B. Waxman Time – TechLand At the beginning of every school year, most college students receive the same warning email or lecture from campus safety: don’t leave your laptop unattended because someone could steal it. But they don’t warn you that a friend could also log into your Facebook account and start [...]
Privacy Tip: Assume Everything Online Could Be Public
Gregory Ferenstein TechCrunch Privacy Tip: Assume Everything Online Could Be Public The Internet collectively freaked out yesterday after rumors swirled that Facebook accidently began posting private messages to users’ public timelines, exposing all the nasty, salacious, and incriminating messages that were thought to be securely hidden from view. Not everyone had cause to worry, [...]
Social Network Hacking Part 2 – Have You Been Infiltrated?
David Pace, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martins, Ron Kelson, Benjamin Gittins The Malta Independent Social Network Hacking Part 2 – Have You Been Infiltrated? The explosion of social networks and new user accounts in recent years is staggering. There are now over 1,000 social networking sites on the Internet, with Facebook currently being the largest, with [...]
Facebook Twitter Role in Syrian Uprising
DayPress PARIS- Facebook Twitter Role in Syrian Uprising. The battle for Syria is raging on the ground but also on social media, where people on both sides of the conflict are hacking, posting and spamming in a frenzied propaganda war. The Twitter feeds of news organizations have been hacked by pro-regime elements, videos [...]
Facebook Account Hacked By Spammer Selling Sneakers
David Segal New York Times Facebook Account Hacked, legitimate account holder suffers. FACEBOOK’S initial public stock offering caused a lot of well-publicized agita. But if you think investors were the only ones fuming at the company, read on. Q. In mid-April, my Facebook profile was hijacked. I could not sign into my account, and someone [...]
Man Gets 12 Months For Hacking Facebook Account
Steve McCaskill TechWeek Europe Man from Sussex tracked down by Met Police’s e-Crime Unit for Facebook account hack A man from Sussex has been handed a 12 month sentence for hacking into a private Facebook account. Gareth Crosskey will spend the next year in jail after committing two offences under the Computer Misuse Act. In [...]
Anonymous Takes Out Boeing Website
Matt Liebowitz MSNBC TechnoBlog Anonymous is taking responsibility for launching a coordinated cyberattack on Boeing’s website, a high-profile takedown that’s part of the hacking collective’s campaign against what it believes is a stifling piece of federal legislation. Anonymous announced “Tango Down boeing.com by #Anonymous for #OpDefense” on its YourAnonNews Twitter feed at about 3:45 p.m. EDT [...]
Anonymous Hackers Plan More China Site Attacks
Melanie Lee Huffington Post SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday. Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the [...]
CabinCr3w Hacker Identified By Twitter & Hot Bikini Girl
Dan Oakes Brisbane Times Summary: Photos of an Australian girl in a bikini led to the arrest of CabinCr3w hacker Higinio O. Ochoa III, who allegedly hacked government websites. PICTURES of a scantily clad woman taken in an outer-Melbourne suburb have led to the arrest of a man who allegedly hacked law enforcement and [...]
The Virtual Threat: We Must Be Ready To Fight
Amiya Kumar Mishra The Telegraph We must be ready to fight against all kinds of cyber crimes The year 2011 has been a victim to some of the world’s biggest hacking attacks. The hacking of Sony Playstation, customers’ information breach of Citibank, Operations Payback are only a few to name among them. India is [...]
Firefox Addon Allows Clueless to Hack Facebook
Darlene Storm ComputerWorld Even if you were drunk and surfing at a Wi-Fi hotspot, you probably wouldn’t stand up and shout your username and password for anyone who might want it. But an attacker does not need to find out your username and password. If you thought that capturing a user’s social media session [...]
