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BBC Sport in Rugby World Cup Twitter spam slip-up

19

Sep

2011

A compromised Twitter account has resulted in the embarrassing broadcast of a spam message via the BBC’s website. More and more TV stations are encouraging both their staff and their viewers to jump onboard the social media bandwagon, and use the likes of Twitter to interact and keep up-to-date with the latest developments. But if […]

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Fraud News

13

Jun

2011

Late on Sunday, I got a weird message from a colleague. He had done a Google News search, looking for latest press coverage on F-Secure and had found something weird. I was not familiar with this news source, so I checked their front page. And there it was. A fabricated article claiming that me and […]

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Do you feel the Lulz?

09

Jun

2011

Individuals across the globe have taken part in public humiliation of mega companies likes Sony, TV networks like PBS and Fox, political parties like the Conservative party of Canada, an FBI affiliate, and so on… What do they do? Hack networks and expose sensitive information or simply deface the sites with fake news stories or […]

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