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USA Today’s Twitter account falls foul of hackers

26

Sep

2011

USA Today is the latest high profile Twitter account to have fallen victim to a group of hackers. A group calling themselves the Script Kiddies have claimed responsibility for the hack, which involved posting a series of messages to the official USA Today Twitter account, including: “Fox News, Wal-mart, Unilevel, Pfizer, NBC and now USA […]

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Botnets on discount! – Creating a botnet has become insanely easy and cheap

20

Sep

2011

The malware author, the name used makes us suspect it is a male author, announces his bot creation in the underground and explains that he likes coding and is not keen on making a lot of money. That would be the reason for the low price, he says. Accepted payment methods: paysafecard (with receipt) and […]

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Pfizer’s Facebook page hacked – don’t be next!

22

Jul

2011

Pharmaceutical megacorp Pfizer’s Facebook page was defaced a couple of days ago, and then restored. Responsibility was claimed by a newly-created Twitter account calling itself Script Kiddies. He/she/it urged that Pfizer should be stopped because “they’re corrupt and the damage they create is senseless”. Intellectually challenging stuff. Actually, calling this a hack is a bit […]

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