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Twitter was hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army”

by certifiedbug on December 18, 2009

in Internet Security

Screenshots and commentary:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

Quickly followed by;

We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.

Update (11:28p): Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.

http://status.twitter.com/post/288586541/working-on-site-outage

Edits
CyberCrime & Doing Time:
Who is the “Iranian Cyber Army”? Twitter DNS Redirect
Iranian Cyber Army returns – target: Baidu.com

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Facebook: new privacy policies

by certifiedbug on December 10, 2009

in Internet Security

Facebook updated its privacy policy. After logging on and being presented with the “Privacy announcement” I saw the default entry was “Everyone”. Make sure you check your settings!

Security Garden
Facebook Privacy

Bits from Bill
Who Gets Your Personal Information on Facebook?

Facebook Simplifies Sharing your Personal Info

Like me your first reaction may be hurray! Facebook has listened to us and will be increasing our privacy. Guess again. When you click to continue you’ll see a revamped version of their current privacy settings. Unless you’re paying attention much of the information you only want “Friends” to see will now be available to “Everyone”.

Update
“Illuminating pictures of Facebook chief exec Mark Zuckerberg have been exposed by Facebook’s privacy roll back.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/11/zuckerberg_pix_expose/

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Microsoft AntiPiracy (MSFTGenuine) on Twitter

November 13, 2009

Microsoft announces that it has launched a dedicated Twitter feed for its anti-piracy enforcement team. Despite attempts by Microsoft and other IT companies to curb piracy, often through aggressive policies, a recent report by McAfee suggests that the rate of file-sharing sites hosting unauthorized content has been rising steadily in the past few months.
eWeek
MSFTGenuine: [...]

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Koobface: new wave on Facebook

August 17, 2009

Security company Panda Security warns that the gang behind the Koobface worm has released the next iteration of their worm with over 60 active domains spreading the content through the usual method of posting a message linking to a “CooooL Video” on Facebook.
The Koobface gang uses the same old “Flash Player upgrade required” tactic to [...]

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Feeding Twitter with worms

April 14, 2009

Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, the bored teenager who released worms on Twitter over the weekend was right up there in the news over the Easter weekend.
Careful if you are performing random searchs on the story, malicious sites taking advantage of the public interest in Mikeyy could redirect you and not all of them are marked bad.

Article [...]

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Microsoft works with Facebook to eradicate Koobface worm

April 6, 2009

Assisting Facebook’s security team efforts to purge the Koobface worm from the popular social-networking site, Microsoft added detection of the Koobface worm to the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). Since its release two weeks ago the newest version of MSRT has removed Koobface nearly 200,000 times from over 133,677 computers.
Koobface targets social networking sites and [...]

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Grab bag

March 13, 2009

Anti-Social Networking
Differences between IE8 Compatibility View and IE7
Completing the Windows Experience with Windows Live
TinyURL usage becoming more common in Phishing and IM Attacks – Harry Waldron – Corporate and Home Security
Conficker.C variant set for April 1st surprise, CA says
Security Updates available for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9
Foxit version 3.0 fixes serious vulnerabilities in its [...]

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Trojan bundling modified StudiVZ toolbar with backdoor

February 11, 2009

StudiVZ, based in Germany, is a popular social networking platform for students.
A new Trojan (pretending to be a toolbar installer) is spreading that bundles the legitimate toolbar for the German social network “StudiVZ” with a variant of Backdoor-CEP. Among other malicious activities, the backdoor is capable of recording a user’s screen, taking screenshots, and logging [...]

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Windows Live Messenger for Facebook

May 7, 2008

For all you social butterflies.
Using the Windows Live Messenger for Facebook application you can:

Expose your Messenger status to your Facebook friends
Receive instant messages from friends that visit your Facebook profile page
View your friends’ Messenger status on Facebook
Send instant messages to your friends on Facebook that are using Messenger
Easily add your Facebook friends to your Messenger [...]

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“Teen dating site” parents beware

January 15, 2008

This is disturbing.
Is that the sound of your flesh crawling off your bones? No? Well, how about when I tell you that this “dating site”for 13 year old kids is called “Mylol.net”?
Originally, the site invited you to download Zango videos once you were a member (videos that require you to be 18 or older to [...]

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