Wrestling star Mick Foley’s Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles

One of the biggest wrestling stars around, Mick Foley, had his Twitter account hijacked in an attempt to legitimize a very popular scam. When a well known individual has their social media accounts compromised, disaster looms, as everything from phishing to malware distribution waits in the wings...

Forbes Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army; Website and Twitter accounts Compromised

Forbes is the latest victim in a long line of high-profile attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, sending a reminder to the international community that cyber warfare is alive and well. The pro-Assad group also took responsibility for hacking multiple Forbes websites and hijacked three Twitte...

CVE-2013-2318

The Content Provider in the MovatwiTouch application before 1.793 and MovatwiTouch Paid application before 1.793 for Android does not properly restrict access to authorization information, which allows attackers to hijack Twitter accounts via a crafted application...

CVE-2013-2318

CVE-2013-2318 affects MovatwiTouch for Android (before v1.793) and MovatwiTouch Paid (before v1.793). The Content Provider fails to restrict access to authorization information, enabling a crafted Android application to hijack a user’s Twitter account by abusing the permission exposure. The issue...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks The Guardian's Twitter Accounts

The Guardian's Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Syrian government hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' , who previously targeted the Associated Press BBC, al-Jazeera, the Qatari government and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as France 24 TV. "We are aware that a number...

Celebrity Ashton Kutcher Firesheep'd at TED Conference

High profile celebrity Ashton Kutcher had his Twitter account hijacked at the celebrity infested Technology, Entertainment, Design TED Conference, TED2011, in Long Beach, California, on Wednesday. Kutcher, best known for his role on the sitcom That 70’s Show and, later, as host of MTV’s Punk’d...