Content Provider in MovatwiTouch fails to restrict access permissions

Overview MovatwiTouch is a Twitter client software for Android devices. The Content Provider in MovatwiTouch contains an issue where access permissions are not restricted. Masata Nishida of Advanced Research Laboratory, SecureBrain Corporation reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC...

JVN#90289505: Content Provider in MovatwiTouch fails to restrict access permissions

MovatwiTouch is a Twitter client software for Android devices. The Content Provider in MovatwiTouch contains an issue where access permissions are not restricted. Impact If a user of the affected product uses another malicious Android application, authorization information granted to MovatwiTouch...

Twitter Enables Two-Factor Authentication

Responding to a wave of high-profile account takeovers in recent months, Twitter has implemented a phone-based two-factor authentication scheme that will require a numerical code along with a username and password when users log in to their accounts. The feature, known as login verification, is...

Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

The Financial Times has become the latest news outlet to be hacked by supporters of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, following a phishing attack on the company's email accounts. The posh broadsheet's Tech Blog - at https://blogs.FT.com/beyond-brics was compromised to run stories headlined...

Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

The Financial Times has become the latest news outlet to be hacked by supporters of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, following a phishing attack on the company’s email accounts. The posh broadsheet's Tech Blog - at http://blogs.FT.com/beyond-brics was compromised to run stories headlined...

Fedora 18 : thunderbird-17.0.6-1.fc18 (2013-8298)

Security fixes can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/th underbird.htmlthunderbird17.0.6 - Thunderbird now supports the Twitter API version 1.1 ahead of Twitter closing the 1.0 version Bug 857049 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Lulzsec hackers to be sentenced for cyber attacks on the CIA and Pentagon

Four men accused of launching online attacks under the banner of LulzSec appeared in a London courtroom Wednesday for sentencing. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Cleary have all pleaded guilty to hacking offences. The name Lulzsec is a combination of 'lulz' or 'lols', "LAUGHI...

Another day, Another verified Twitter Account Hacked

Another day, Another verified twitter account with over 900,000 followers hacked by 'Colin'. Hacker hacked into a Sky News Twitter account earlier today, and left a semi-permanent mark on the internet's consciousness. The mysterious Colin soon began to trend on Twitter as ColinWasHere hashtag...

Another day, Another verified Twitter Account Hacked

Another day, Another verified twitter account with over 900,000 followers hacked by 'Colin'. Hacker hacked into a Sky News Twitter account earlier today, and left a semi-permanent mark on the internet's consciousness. The mysterious Colin soon began to trend on Twitter as ColinWasHere hashtag...

'The Onion' Twitter Account Hacked via Phishing Attack

The hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army SEA briefly took over the Twitter account of the satirical news publication The Onion, posting a series of anti-Israeli joke stories and an anti-Obama meme image. In a post on The Onion tech team's GitHub blog, the fake news site explains that the Syria...

'The Onion' Twitter Account Hacked via Phishing Attack

The hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army SEA briefly took over the Twitter account of the satirical news publication The Onion, posting a series of anti-Israeli joke stories and an anti-Obama meme image. In a post on The Onion tech team's GitHub blog, the fake news site explains that the Syria...

How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked the Onion

A pro-Syrian regime hacker collective known as the Syrian Electronic Army SEA recently compromised the Twitter, Google Apps and other accounts belonging to The Onion, a long-running satirical news publication in the U.S. Like The New York Times before it, The Onion published a fascinating...

Two-Factor Authentication Won't Stop Twitter Compromises

The hijacking of high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to the Associated Press and Guardian UK newspaper brings to light numerous security shortcomings, namely the susceptibility users still have when it comes to phishing attacks, their propensity to use weak passwords, and the inability to...

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...

Syrian Hackers Hijack AP Twitter Tweet Obama Injured by Bomb

Twitter is facing increased pressure to beef up authentication for users after the hijacking of another high-profile account yesterday caused some temporary tremors on the stock market. The social network has reportedly been testing two-factor authentication internally; Twitter lags behind Google...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Twitter Malware spotted in the wild stealing banking credentials

Trusteer researcher Tanya Shafir has recently identified an active configuration of TorRAT targeting Twitter users. Other than spreading ideas on the most popular social networks, now cyber criminals are spreading malware. The malware launches a Man-in-the-Browser MitB attack through the browser ...

Trusteer Discovers New Twitter Malware Targeting the Dutch

As Twitter continues to secure its footing in the social network spectrum, it continues to be complemented by an ongoing deluge of spam and malware, intent on tapping into – and duping – the social network’s 200 million plus users. Tanya Shafir, a researcher at the security firm Trusteer recently...

WordPress Xhanch My Twitter Plugin <= 2.7.6 - CSRF

Because of this vulnerability in admin/setting.php, the attackers can hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change unspecified settings. Solution Update the plugin...