Twitter on Thursday said the account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked, and it has now been restored. We’re aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted. Advice […]
A Florida teen was identified Friday as the mastermind of a scheme earlier this month that commandeered Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities, and technology moguls and scammed people around the globe out of more than 100,000 in Bitcoin. Two other men were also charged in the case. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday […]
Twitter says the hackers responsible for a recent high-profile breach used the phone to fool the social media company’s employees into giving them access. The company revealed a few more details late Thursday about the hack earlier this month, which it said targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear-phishing attack. This attack […]
Twitter went through a serious security breach last week in which the hackers tweeted on behalf of the profile owners. Most of the targeted accounts belonged to several high-profile individuals. Over the weekend, Twitter worked tirelessly not only to solve the issues but also to clarify their situation. Twitter mentioned that the attackers targeted 130 […]
Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers were able to reset the passwords of 45 of those accounts. The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post Saturday that for up to eight of these accounts the attackers also downloaded the account’s […]
India’s cybersecurity nodal agency CERT-In has issued a notice to Twitter asking the micro-blogging platform for full details of the recent global hack targeting high-profile users, as it sought complete information on the number of Indian users affected as well as the impact on data, a source said. The source privy to the development told […]
Several prominent Twitter accounts, including those of former US president Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, were hacked apparently to promote a Bitcoin scam in what the microblogging site believes to be a “coordinated social engineering attack.” The account of former US vice-president Joe Biden, who is the current Democratic […]
A few years down the line, even the best of marriages can get a little shaky. While everyone has arguments, if one partner drifts away to find interest in someone else, things can get out of hands pretty soon. So think about it very carefully. Have you been noticing subtle changes in your wife’s behavior? […]
Ever since computers became mainstream in the mid-’80s, hackers have been quite a nuisance to government entities, corporations, and individuals alike. Despite the efforts of the operating system (OS) and anti-hacking software developers, hackers have only grown their power and capabilities and have found innovative ways to thwart security measures. Thankfully, when your computer is […]
When people think of computer viruses, they typically think of a downloaded virus entering a person’s computer or device and affecting its performance. People imagine a laggy, slow computer, random pop-ups, strange toolbars, and a decreasing battery life. These types of viruses, while inconvenient, are usually harmless in the long run and can be fixed with […]
During a competition, participants discovered 18 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Amazon Echo, Xiaomi Mi9, Galaxy S10, etc. A total of $315,000 was earned by the participants of the hacker competitions Pwn2Own 2019, held on November 6-7 in Tokyo. The organizer of Pwn2Own is the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), and the prize pool amounted […]
