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E!Online Official Twitter Account Hijacked By Syrian Electronic Army (#twithackery)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/09/2013 04:29:00 pm

E!Online Official Twitter Account Hijacked By Syrian Electronic Army (#twithackery) Fake Tweet Claimed Justin Bieber is Gay

The massive ongoing twitter hijacking also known as twithackery carried by carried by the infamous pro-Assad group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army targeted another high profile twitter account. After the successful hijack of three high profile twitter account of CBS news followed by the hack of BBC and the Associated Press twitter account, now Syrian Electronic Army aka SEA have caught another big fish  that is E! Online -one of the leading resource of entertainment and celebrity gossip news. The official twitter account of E!Online that has over five million followers fallen victim to these dangerous hacker collective group. As per several legitimate sources this high valued twitter account was hacked on Saturday afternoon and subsequently posted several false tweets about a few celebrities, most specifically Justin Bieber. After the successful hijack, exactly like earlier the hacker group started tweeting false message. Among those One tweet read, “Exclusive: Justin Bieber to E!Online: I’m a gay,” followed by a shortlink.  Another read, “Exclusive: Selena Gomez tells E! she will fully supporting Justin in his coming out” [sic], also followed by a shortlink.  (Selena Gomez was Bieber’s girlfriend up until recently).  And another made reference to Angelina Jolie blaming Jordan for “the Syrian refugees’ atrocious conditions.” Here is screen capture of those fake tweets:- 

After this mishap security experts have figured out that many of those links associated with the above fake tweets redirecting users to malicious webpages. So users were urged not to click on the links. Not only the official twitter account, but also the hacking group also managed to infiltrate the E!’s text messaging system, sending hundreds of thousands of subscribers similar messages including an obscene message relating to President Barack Obama. 

While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & CBS; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before E!Online. In the wake of all the recent cyberattacks on news organizations, Twitter has warned media accounts that they will continue to be targets of hackers, and has advised them to take all appropriate steps to further secure their Twitter accounts. 




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Young Pop Star Justin Bieber's Twitter Account Compromised

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/29/2012 12:54:00 am

Young Pop Star Justin Bieber's Twitter account Compromised 
World famous pop singer from Canada, Justin Drew Bieber also enlisted his name among those celebrities whose twitter account get hacked. The attacker has tweeted an unauthorized message in-front of the 19 Million of twitter follower. 
The hacker has tweeted the above message but fortunately that very tweet was immediately deleted. The hashtag "biebermyballs" sounds familiar, it should, same words were tweeted repeatedly from Carly Rae Jepsen's Twitter account after it was hacked several weeks ago. It is not clear if Bieber's account was hacked same person. The hacker responsible for Jepsen's hack was not identified yet. Few days ago another American pop singer "Kesha" twitter a/c get hacked. Same things happen to Teyana Taylor twitter which even caused exposure of few personal photo of this star among those there are few topless pictures.
Not only these two but also we have seen such attacks many times. Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking.



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McAfee Reveals Emma Watson as 2012’s Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity & For India its Sunny Leone

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/09/2012 04:30:00 am

McAfee Reveals Emma Watson as 2012’s Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity & For India its Sunny Leone

In a research security software company McAfee figure out Sunny Leone as the most dangerous celebrity in the Indian cyber space for this year, followed by Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor. For the sixth year in a row, McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal riskiest celebrity sportsmen, actors and politicians across the Web to reveal the 2012 rendition of ‘Most Dangerous Celebrity’ research. In the India ranking this year, Sunny Leone displaced Katrina Kaif, who owned this title in the 2011 edition of this annual research. Lubna Markar, Sr. Marketing Manager India and South Asia, McAfee, said, “Cyber criminals continue to leverage top celebrities to lure people to websites with malicious software. This year too, we saw cyber crooks leveraging Bollywood stars whereby the maximum number of malicious software laden sites pertained to Sunny Leone. This testifies her top position as the most dangerous celebrity in Indian cyberspace in 2012.” 
The study for ‘Most Dangerous Celebrity’ used the McAfee SiteAdvisor site rating which indicates the sites that are risky to search for celebrity names on the Web and calculate an overall risk percentage. The top 10 celebrities in India from this year’s study with the highest risk percentages are: 

  1. Sunny Leone: This sexy Canadian model/actress who made headlines with her presence in the celebrity reality show BigBoss, ranks first with 9.95% chances of luring people into clicking on malicious links.
  2. Katrina Kaif: India’s ‘chikni chameli’ was the most dangerous Indian celebrity of 2011, but has slipped down to the 2nd position this year with a risk percentile of 8.25%.
  3. Kareena Kapoor: The 3rd Most Dangerous Celebrity and winner of six film fare awards has a 6.67% possibility of making users fall into a trap of malware laden Web sites.
  4. Priyanka Chopra: This former Miss World who has been the reigning queen of Bollywood occupies the 4th position on the Most Dangerous Celebrities list with a risk percentile of 6.5%.
  5. Bipasha Basu: With Raaz 3, this Bengali bombshell has moved up the ranking from 8th in 2011 to the 5th position in 2012. She has a 5.58% percentile of leading users to a malicious site.
  6. Vidya Balan: After her ‘Dirty Picture’, Vidya Balan has a 5.33 % chance of leading users to malicious sites. The versatile Indian actress has marked her presence even in the cyber space.
  7. Deepika Padukone: This sultry actress of ‘Cocktail’ fame, was the 2nd most dangerous celebrity in the year 2011, but has plummeted to 7th position this year, with a 4.92% chance of being led to a malicious Web site.
  8. Salman Khan: One of the most sought after stars in Bollywood, Salman Khan has redefined the trends of the Hindi film industry with his roles in movies such as Dabangg and Ek Tha Tiger. With a risk percentile of 4.83%, he is on the eighth position in our Most Dangerous Celebrities ranking.
  9. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Touted as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, is the ninth most dangerous celebrity in India with a risk percentile of 4.58%.
  10. Poonam Pandey: The Kingfisher calendar girl who was also amongst the top 8 contestants in ‘Gladrags 2010′, has a risk percentile of 4.25% and is the tenth most dangerous celebrity.


If you go thorugh the report of McAfee's 2012’s Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity then you will come to know that Emma Watson has replaced Heidi Klum as McAfee's 2012 most dangerous celebrity to search for online. For the sixth times in a row, McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal the riskiest Hollywood actors, athletes, musicians, politicians, designers, and comedians on the Web.  The McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities™ study found that women are more dangerous than men with Jessica Biel taking the number two spot and Eva Mendes coming in third. Latina women have proven that they are on fire and make up five of the top ten spots. After Mendes, Selena Gomez, Shakira and Salma Hayek take the fourth, seventh and ninth spot and Sofia Vergara rounds out the top 10 list. Funnyman Jimmy Kimmel is the only male to make the top 20 list this year. 

The top 10 celebrities from this year’s study with the highest percentages of risk are:-

  1. Emma Watson – Best known for her role as Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” franchise, the British actress tops the list as the 2012 Most Dangerous Celebrity. Watson continues to star in feature films including “My Week with Marilyn” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and is an ambassador for Lancôme.
  2. Jessica Biel – The 2009 Most Dangerous Celebrity rose two spots this year from coming in at number 4 in 2011. Biel continues to be in the spotlight with fiancée Justin Timberlake and her role in 2012’s “Total Recall.”
  3. Eva Mendes – A new addition to the list,Mendes has starred in films including “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “Hitch.” She is currently in the news for her fling with Ryan Gosling.
  4. Selena Gomez – The tween musician and actress is best known for her role as Alex Russo on Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and for dating teen heartthrob Justin Bieber. She has been cast in the upcoming film “Parental Guidance Suggested” and was recently named one of Forbes’ Top 10 Best Social Media Superstars.
  5. Halle Berry – The Academy Award winning actress is famous for her stand out roles in action and horror films including “Catwoman” and “Gothika”. Berry is in the spotlight for her custody battle with baby daddy Gabriel Aubry.
  6. Megan Fox – The sexy actress rose 9 spots compared to her number 15 spot last year. She is currently in the news for her pregnancy with husband Brian Austin Green and will be seen in the upcoming film “This is 40”.
  7. Shakira – The belly-dancing singer/songwriter best known for her songs “Hips Don’t Lie” and “Whenever, Wherever” comes in at number 7. She was recently named one of Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women and was ranked number 6 on Forbes’ Top 10 Best Social Media Superstars.
  8. Cameron Diaz – 2010’s Most Dangerous Celebrity fell to eighth place, with searches resulting in slightly fewer risky sites this year. She was most recently in the spotlight for allegedly dating Alex Rodriguez. She is rumored to star in “Expendables 3.”
  9. Salma Hayek – The actress, producer and director received an Academy Award for her role as Frida Kahlo in “Frida” and recently starred in “Savages.” She is currently in the news for her controversial remarks about her Mexican heritage in a Vogue interview. She is married to billionaire François-Henri Pinault.
  10. Sofia Vergara – The Columbian actress and model best known for her comedic role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on ABC’s Emmy Award winning “Modern Family” rounds out the top 10 list. She also starred in the “The Three Stooges” film this year and was recently named one of Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women and highest paid TV actress. She recently announced her engagement to businessman Nick Loeb.



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Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/23/2013 11:30:00 pm

Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army [#twithackery]

Yet again CBS one of the major commercial broadcasting television network of United States faced cyber attack. First it was hacker collective Anonymous who targeted CBS and managed to hack the TV network of CBS in January last year. The attack was done under the banner of Operation Megaupload. And now CBS have fallen victim of what it called twithackery, where hacker managed to gain temporary access of popular twitter accounts and broadcast fake tweets. This Sunday such twithackery targeted and compromised several twitter account of CBS. Infamous hacker community going by the name of Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have hijacked the twitter accounts of CBS, the list of the hijacked accounts include "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours" which is maintained by CBS news program. Later it has been reported that another twitter account @CBSDenver has also been hacked, during this ongoing cyber attack. CBS acknowledged the whole phenomena and later a CBS spokeswoman confirmed that the accounts had been compromised. "PLEASE NOTE: Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve." - said the CBS spokesman. Another message from CBS said, "A message that was posted earlier to this account was not written or sent by @60Minutes or its staff."

Here is the list of those fake tweets came from the hijacked accounts of CBS:- 
From @60Minutes account we got the following message -
  • "The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
  • "The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
  • "Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
  • "Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast" 

Other messages claimed: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @SyrianCyberArmy" and suggested the action was in response to the suspension of the @Official_SEA account. Tweets sent out on the @48Hours account reportedly included: "General Dempsey calls for #Obama's arrest under new anti-terror laws #48hours" As soon as the issue get spotted, CBS regain those hijacked accounts and immediately deleted those rouge messages. Later the two accounts @60Minutes and @48Hours has been suspended. 
While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before CBS. 



-Source (BBC & Reuters)





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WWE Champion & Actor John Cena's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/26/2012 01:35:00 am

WWE Champion & Actor John Cena's Twitter Account Hacked

Now a days hacking of celebrities, singer, Media, high profile personalities' twitter has became a very natural phenomena. Here again another twitter hacking, also known as #twithackery occurs. This time the victim is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion and renowned actor John Cena. This week more than 2.8 million fans of American professional wrestler John Cena was shocked after seeing irrelevant tweets coming from John Cena's official twitter account. Immediately after it get noticed, the twitter page was restored and those false tweets was deleted. Later a tweet came from John Cena's official twitter page while saying "Sorry guys, guess some attachments got sent out thru my account. Im been a victim of #twithackery" 

Similar things happened earlier when British pop Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 




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Twitter Account of Hacktivist Group Anonymous Hacked By 'Rustle League'

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/23/2013 02:01:00 pm

Twitter Account of Hacktivist Group Anonymous Hacked By 'Rustle League'

The scenario of hackers targeting another hacker has became a very common matter, in last two years we have seen many instances of the above matter where a hacker hit another hacker's site, community, blog, forums and so on. Today the story which I will about to discuss is the same matter where infamous hacker community named 'Anonymous' fallen victim. A newly formed hacker group calling them selves "Rustle League" targeted one of the officially recognized twitter account (@Anon_Central) belongs to hacktivist group which have more than 160,000 followers. According to security experts  "the reason Anonymous fell victim is probably human weakness." Or in other word many of twitter accounts get hacked due to choosing week passwords. "Chances are that they followed poor password practices, like using the same password in multiple places or choosing a password that was easy to crack. Everyone should learn better password security from incidents like this - if it can happen to an account run by Anonymous supporters, it could happen to you" said another expert of security firm Sophos. The hack on Anonymous twitter account placed Thursday morning and three hours later, those running the feed tweeted that they had gained back control of their account. 
While talking about attack on Twitter, we would like to remind you that, in this month a sophisticated cyber attack compromised the security system of the social networking giant twitter, where more than 250,000 twitter users have fallen victim. Though the hack of Anonymous twitter account does not resembles to the said matter, but the hack can be considered in the list of twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; where hackers gain temporary access of celebrity and famous twitter accounts. If you did the history we will find the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery. 





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British pop Star Rita Ora's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/03/2012 03:40:00 pm

British pop Star Rita Ora's Twitter Account Hacked

Yet again another celebrity have fallen victim of twitter hacking. After Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor, American pop singer Kesha; now it was time for British pop star Rita Ora. The hacker have broken into the pop star's account and posted a fake tweet saying "I wanna be with Harry Styles". 
Rita Ora has immediatley apologized to fans after a prankster hacked her Twitter account and posted that she has a crush on One Direction singer Harry Styles. The 21-year-old pop singer got to know about the news Saturday when she discovered a tweet on her page. She quickly deleted the message and told her 1.1 million followers she had contacted bosses at the social networking site about temporarily closing her account while resolving the problem. She writes, "My Twitter has been hacked! Trying to get it frozen for a bit!! Sorry guys!!"
Similar things happened earlier when NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 






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Lady Gaga’s website hacked & Fans' data Stolen By SwagSec (US Hacker)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 7/17/2011 04:59:00 pm


Pop star Lady Gaga called in police after her website was hacked, resulting in the theft of thousands of names and email addresses.
Mirror.co.uk reports that Gaga's Britain website was hacked by US cyber attackers SwagSec, prompting her record label Universal to take urgent action.

"She's upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen," said a source. The cyber attack happened on June 27 but those responsible didn't make the information public until this week.
The hackers, who also issued a death threat against the singer, bizarrely branded her homophobic.
"The hackers took a content database dump from www.ladygaga.co.uk and a section of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken," said a spokesperson from Universal label.

"We take this very seriously and have put in place additional measures to protect personally identifiable information. All those affected have been advised," the source added.

SwagSec have also targeted other Universal artists recently including Amy Winehouse and Justin Bieber.

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Porn & Gore Exploit Hit Facebook (Question Arises That Anonymous is Behind this Attack)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/15/2011 08:33:00 pm


Facebook users facing Facebook Porn and Gore Exploit. The content, which includes explicit hardcore porn images, photoshopped photos of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations, pictures of extreme violence and even a photograph of an abused dog, have been distributed via the site - seemingly without the knowledge of users.
Facebook users’ outrage is mounting toward the social network for an exploit that is currently turning unsuspecting users’ newsfeeds into unstoppable torrents of hardcore pornography and gory, violent pictures. It started a few days ago, and right now is becoming an out of control exploit that has users angry and disgusted, while seemingly mocking Facebook’s notorious conservative content controls.
The onslaught has many asking the question if this is a delayed attack originally set for November 5th by the online hacker group 'Anonymous'.



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American Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/02/2012 03:29:00 am

American Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Account Hacked

Now a days hacking of celebrities, singer, Media, high profile personalities' twitter has became a natural phenomena. Here again another twitter hacking, also known as #twithackery occurs. After John Cena, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha; now it was time for popular  American actress, fashion designer, model and recording artist Lindsay Morgan Lohan. A fake tweet was posted to the 26-year-old star's feed on the social-media site, leaving all of Lohan's 4.5 million followers a bit confused. According to sources Lindsay Lohan’s Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday with the tweet, 
“How does Hitler tie his shoes?” including a link to the answer on @oatmeal's blog. 
As soon as this tweet was spotted on the wild, immediate step has been taken from the side of Lindsay Lohan, and as expected that fake tweet has been deleted. So far the actress hasn’t expressed much concern for this slight security breach. 


But after regaining access on the twitter page Lindsay Lohan confirmed that her page indeed hacked while tweeting "my twitter was hacked, please ignore the last tweet."  as shown on the above picture. While talking  Lindsay Lohan twitter hacking, we also want to include the name of those celebrities  who have fallen victim to these nonstop #twithackery : NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & many more. 











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Selena Gomez Facebook Hacker Sentenced To One Year in Prison

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/25/2012 03:45:00 pm

Selena Gomez Facebook Hacker Sentenced To One Year in Prison

A British hacker has been sentenced to one year in prison after he admitted to hacking singer-actress Selena Gomez's Facebook account and illegally accessing the  emails. According to the London's Metropolitan Police - Gareth Crosskey, 21, was jailed on Wednesday for an incident in January 2011, when he hacked into an unnamed American's Facebook profile. 
Crosskey was arrested at his home in West Sussex, a coastal county in south of London. Law-enforcement agents removed computers and other storage devices from his home during the raid. A YouTube video detailing the account takeover was allegedly posted by Crosskey, using the hacker handle "PkinJ0r." The video shows someone gaining control of Gomez's Facebook page and entering text into various fields.
However, none of the new information is saved, and the maker of the video writes in one field as he films, "I won't actually be posting anything ... Due to it's her page and I'm not that much of a [jerk]."
The video maker made one telling error, which may have led to Crosskey's arrest.
Following the breach, which was reported to the FBI, Crosskey was released on bail. The FBI traced Crosskey's Facebook hack to the U.K, and on Feb. 29, he was brought back to court, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of illegally accessing data, both violations of the Computer Misuse Act.
British police stressed that Crosskey's jail term should serve as a warning that authorities will take swift action, and levy strong penalties, against anyone who follows in his footsteps. 
We would like to give you reminder that this year Young Pop Star & Gomez's husband Justin Bieber's twitter account also get compromised 


-Source (msnbc & msn)



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