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Simon Pegg is Twitter-hacked, warns fans of Trojan horse threat

27
Jun
2011

British comic actor Simon Pegg, star of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most recently the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account has been hacked in order to spread malware to his 1.2 million followers. Simon Pegg normally tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, but the […]

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CIA website brought down by DDoS attack, LulzSec hackers claim responsibility

16
Jun
2011

The CIA website at cia.gov is currently inaccessible, having apparently fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers. Almost inevitably, fingers are pointing towards the notorious LulzSec hacktivist group who have made a name for themselves recently with a series of attacks against corporations, organisations and websites – sometimes forcing them offline, and […]

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