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Johnny Depp has NOT died in a car crash, but hackers utilize rumours

Hollywood film actor Johnny Depp, well-known for his role in Edward Scissor hands, Sleepy Hollow and Pirates of the Caribbean, becomes the unsuspecting star of an internet hoax which increase extensively this weekend.

Blameless internet user were fooled by the hoax, dispersal messages to their online friends that the popular film star, who lives in France with his partner Vanessa Paradis, had come to a sad end at the side of a road in Bordeaux. The bogus information claim that the 46-year-old actor had die in a drunken car crash, often connecting to a webpage which apparently restricted a CNN news report, including a photograph of the wreckage.

Though, the webpage (despite appearance to the casual browser) wasn’t in fact on CNN’s website at all.

Fraction of the report reads:

Johnny Depp’s car was found alongside a road exterior Bordeaux, France, with the protector rail entrenched deep in the car.

A tourist was heavy downward the road when he saw a car wreck alongside the road. He step out and try to see if anybody was in there as his wife dialed the police for help.

To his disappointment, he found the body in the car among liquor bottles.

The police arrived at the scene shortly after and pulled out the body of the former actor, Johnny Depp.

Many people forwarded on messages about Depp’s death making “Johnny Depp RIP” a trending topic on Twitter, which helped to fuel the rumour and spread it even further and faster. The only problem was, inevitably, that the people hadn’t checked their facts before passing on the news. Johnny Depp, I’m delighted to report, hasn’t died in a car crash. In addition, as you can see in the video below, hackers have taken advantage of the situation – spreading malware on sites claiming to contain footage of Johnny Depp’s car crash

Eddie Murphy deceased Reports guide original Celebrity Death Hoaxes

Eddie Murphy dead reports the past were hard to believe. The Eddie Murphy dead rumor was rapidly debunk during one of the busier days of debunking celebrity death reports.

The Internet kills off tons of celebrities at any given time, but the death mill had been calm over the last few months. It was invigorated when they incorrectly reported Aretha Franklin had died, but it was just the start. Not only was Murphy dead by Internet hoaxes the past, so were Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen and Adam Sandler this week.

In the case of all these actors/comedians, they were all reported to have died from snowboarding accidents. These days, the hoaxes can’t even be distinctive anymore, as they are both untrue and unoriginal.The rumors that Wilson and Murphy had died broke yesterday; right after the theoretical death of Aretha Franklin was debunked. Sheen and Sandler also had to show they were still alive this week as well. It has been a while since so many famous people died online, but the death mill is making up for its break now.

Many populace have been kill more than once online yet always handle to come back to be digitally killed again. It seems that, the Internet believes they cannot snowboard, as Murphy, Wilson, Sandler and Sheen were all killed off at Switzerland’s Zermatt Ski Resort.

It’s unclear why the Eddie Murphy hoaxes, and all the other ones, are taking place now. It had been a long time since the Internet killed off this many celebrities, but it seems it is ending the year with a bang. Since so many of them were supposedly killed from snowboarding, this would be the ideal time of year to make that stick.

In Murphy’s case, his representative had to emerge and confirm he was still alive. The star doesn’t often make the publicity rounds himself, and has no new movies to promote at the moment. So since he usually avoids the tabloid eye nowadays, the hoaxers likely thought it would be easier to get away with their rumors.Instead, the Estory went away quickly, like the ones that killed Wilson, Sandler, Sheen and Franklin. Claiming that Sheen and Franklin died fooled more people, given Sheen’s lifestyle and Franklin’s current illness. Yet since the three comedians in the bunch have no such problems – presumably – it was easier to debunk their demises.

Given the rash of fake celebrity deaths lately, it stands to wonder who will be killed off today and tomorrow. Since they already said Murphy was dead, the pranksters have to pick other icons – but that hasn’t been a problem for them.

Gordon Ramsay claim spyware used to hack into his email

Gordon Ramsay, the continually cussing celebrity chef who has won 12 Michelin stars, is suing members of his wife’s family next claims that they used spyware to hack into his individual and company emails.

Chris Hutcheson, the father of Ramsay’s wife Tana, was sacked as managing director of the dirty-mouthed dough puncher’s restaurant empire previous October, amid a blizzard of accusations from together sides.

According to media reports, Ramsay’s High Court summons claims that, with the assist of an IT specialist called Kevin Fung, Hucheson and other members of his family stole passwords with key logging spyware, and used them to right to use secret emails.

Hmm… I wonder if Ramsay had a four-letter password.

It is more claims that Jennifer Aves-Eliott, Gordon Ramsay’s individual assistant, was also under attack – with spyware capture 1,868 snapshots of what was appear on her computer screen.

Gordon Ramsay assets confirmed last November that 46-year-old Fung, from Leyton, East London, had been balanced from his post at the company pending an IT investigation.

It doesn’t noise to me like this is leaving to be a family feud that is ever going to be patched up.

If you desire your own individual and business life to turn out to be less unattractive than Gordon Ramsay’s, then one thing I would suggest is ensure that you and your staff are on their guard against malware attack, and keep your suspicion up-to-date.c

Lady Gaga establish dead in lodge room? Be careful Face book clickjacking scam

Has Lady Gaga actually be found dead in a hotel room? A scam which has increase rapidly across Facebook would surely like you to think so.

Heres’s an instance of a message that is life form seen spreading virally on Facebook, affectation as a link to a BBC TV News report.

Lady Gaga establish dead in hotel room

BREAKING: Lady Gaga Found Dead in Hotel Room

This is the most awful day in US history

Wow. I denote, yes, it would be tragic if Lady Gaga were to die, but.. Seriously.. “The most awful day in US history”?Anyway, if you are tricked into clicking on the link you are taken in the end (via a website which sloppily allows an open redirect) to a webpage that pretends to contain a BBC News video report:

Watch out, though, if you try to play the video as this is a clickjacking scam which attempt to silently say you “Like” the page when you click with your mouse.

Users who have installed a browser add-on such a No Script for Firefox will see a message caution them of the peril of being click jacked.

If you’ve been hit by a scam like this, remove the messages and likes from your Facebook page – and caution your friends not to click on the offending links. Clearly there’s much more work which wants to be done by Facebook to prevent these sorts of messages spreading so fast.

Larissa Riquelme spam

A supposed sex record showcasing Larissa Riquelme a Paraguayan model continue to flow online while hiding a unhelpful PC Trojan or virus which infects systems that download the video. Todanoticia.com reports this throughout the 3rd week of July 2010.The malicious e-mail, in an effort to come into view believable as well as cheat the receiver, uses and speak to purport to be from news @ @ comercio.com.pe. At the same time, it attempt at sending an e-mail from El Comercio’s (Peruvian newspaper) online account.

States the e-mail, a sure security camera wedged model Larissa Riquelme of Paraguay, who is also referred to as “Bride of the World,” in an close position with a soccer player from Peru at a Miraflores hotel, causing much surprise to many. The e-mail, reportedly, provides an attachment containing a video file. EWorldpost.com reported this during the 3rd week of July 2010.

Also, there’s also a web-link named elcomercio.pe in the e-mail that the reader is hypothetical to click.

Security researchers corroborate that the e-mail is a spam and the more popular ‘celebrity spam’ type. During the recent years, the method has used several celebrity names like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears with an objective to get users to follow hateful web-links.

Troublingly, the researchers report of a rising overlap between malware writers and spammers, with a nasty cycle of spam being utilized for disseminating malicious software that in turn disseminate additional spam.

As a consequence of the maliciousness intrinsic in these kinds of harmful spam runs, safety specialists advocate Internet users that they must adopt certain simple events that will keep their systems safe from getting hijacked with such spam mails. First, they must delete all spam mails without even viewing them. Second, they mustn’t follow web-links implanted on e-mails of these kinds since the web-links can have malware able of compromise their systems.

Also, users must install the most recent anti-spyware and anti-virus programs along with a excellence firewall that will keep their PCs guarded. And if there is any doubt that a user’s PC has been impure alternatively hijacked then he must get his PC examined without the least delay.

Miley Cyrus hacker “worn numerous celebrity MySpace accounts for spamming”

The 19-year-old hacker who was raid last October for supposedly breaking into Miley Cyrus’s MySpace account and stealing candid photographs of the teenage singer, also hacking into the accounts of other stars according to the FBI.

According to an affidavit obtained by News Channel 5, Miley Cyrus was not the only fatality of Tennessee teenager Josh Holly who used the online pet name “Trainreq“.

Wired magazine rumor that music stars such as Rihanna, Chris Brown, Linkin Park and fall out Boy had their MySpace accounts compromised, with Holly spamming fans post about where they could download ringtones for their favourite artists. Advertising affiliate are said to have paid Holly between $5 and $12 for each person who respond to the adverts.

According to the documents, Holly established $110,000 from the scheme among November 2007 and July 2008, though he claims that half of the money went to an Israeli-based accomplice.

In the meantime, Holly is still organization his Trainreq website, apparently courting attention from the media, where he is even in a row a poll asking people what punishment visitors think he should receive

Amy Wine house bereavement hoax video scams come into view on Face book

Anxious singer Amy Wine house was establish dead in her North London home today, making headline approximately the world. Within four hours, cold-hearted scammers were taking benefit of her death on Face book.

If you see links like the following in your newsfeed, please don’t click on them.

Amy Winehouse is dead!!

Leaked Video!! Amy Winehouse on Crack hours before death

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Amy Winehouse getting high on crack just hours before she died

Video leaked of Amy Winehouse’s death

Video leaked of amy winehouse’s death!!! Warning: Graphical Content.

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Amy Winehouse OVERDOSE VIDEO LEAKED! – RIP AMY

Scammers are like vultures, feeding off tragedy such as the death of Amy Winehouse or the horrific proceedings in Norway yesterday.

Scams like this usually lead you to online surveys, with the scammers earn themselves commission for each survey that victims complete. But first they trick you into sharing the link with your other Face book friends.

If you got hit by this scam, build sure you have detached the entries from your news feed (to stop them being shared amongst your friends), mark them as spam if you like, and check your profile does not have any unwanted “Likes” under your “Likes and interests”.

Scrubs star Zach Braff’s website hacked to articulate he is gay

Keep in mind Zach Braff (Did his parents really choose this name for him?), star of hospital comedy series Scrubs where he play the hapless and endearing character Dr John Dorian?

Fine, days gone by Braff announce on Face book that his website was hacked to show a bogus letter to loyal fans admit that he was gay.According to more than a few media reports, Braff’s publicist says that the website was old and hadn’t not been efficient since 2006.

The hackers allegedly added the following statement to the site:

“To all my loyal fans, I have been hiding this secret inside me for too long…I am excited and proud to announce that I am an open member of the homosexual community. This is not news to those closest to me, and I honor that they have kept it a secret for such a long time.”

Zach Braff with girlfriend Taylor Bagley the information must have come as a revelation to Taylor Bagley, the actor’s girlfriend.Soon, all was clearer, as the 36-year-old Scrubs actor free a statement on his Face book page in an effort to stamp out the rumours about his sexuality:

“My old website got hacked. Someone issued a “coming out” statement on my behalf. I’m still straight and in love with my girlfriend. But not too straight; I still love musicals, brunch and Doogie Howser.”

I hesitation a lot of of us mind whether Braff is gay or not. I certainly don’t. But this story underline the importance of not forgetting about websites we may have shaped in the past.

If you have a website that you no longer care about, get rid of it. At the very least, you should keep its security up to date. Old sites are much easier targets for hackers than those with up-to-date defenses.

Be cautious the Justin Bieber erection Face book scam

That’s perhaps the most improbable caption I’ve still had to write in my computer security vocation, but never mind…

If that’s the case then they might be intrigue by a note that is dispersal virally across the Face book social net claim to be recording of… and how can I put this precisely? I don’t think I can.. Justin Bieber with an erection.

Messages like the following are being seen:

WTF !! I just saw that Justin Bieber got erection in a public interview.lol

Almost certainly not the kind of message you would characteristically click on from your office computer, but maybe a young teeny bopping music fan in your family would find the subject matter tempting to investigate further.

And if they do click on the link they are taken to a Face book page with the meaning “Justin Bieber gets a boner in Public!!!”, and an invitation to “Click to watch” a video.

The pages contain a graphic claim that the application is a “Face book established app” (which seems unlikely given the subject matter).Would young female fans of Justin Bieber be likely to go further – I suspect so.

As is usual in scams like this on Face book, you are then obtainable with a message from Face book ask you to corroborate that you are happy for the third social gathering request to have all sorts of access to your Face book account – counting the ability to post messages to your wall.

This is your last possibility to be levelheaded, and not put your account at risk. Unluckily far too many people are trick by social engineering to give doubtful third party apps like this full reign to mess around with their Face book accounts. If they’re not using the modern day equivalent of David Cassidy to lure users into granting permission, they’re pretending to be new Face book functionality like “Dislike” buttons, or pretending to be free tickets with an airline.

But if you do make the error of clicking further, then you will find that you are not watching a video of Bieber having trouser trouble, but instead being asked to take a survey. Surveys like this generate revenue for the scammers who are behind the application – they earn charge for every survey that is completed. In the background. Meanwhile, the scoundrel application has ill-treated your social networking account dispersal the spam virally via your wall to your Face book friends and family.

It’s only usual that scams like this will carry on for as long as users continue to fall for silly tricks like this, and the scammers continue to find it monetarily rewarding. If you’ve been hit by a scam like this, remove reference to it from your newsfeed, and revoke the right of rogue applications to access your profile via Account/ Privacy Settings/ Applications and Websites.

I’ve made a YouTube video where I show you how to clean-up your Face book account if you were hit by this or similar scams on Face book:

Don’t not remember – if you know young people who use Face book, you should warn them about scams like this and teach them not to trust every link that is placed in front of them.

Rumour of Taliban leader’s death News was hacked?

Mullah Omar It seems that the UK isn’t the merely country at the centre of a phone hack scandal.

A orator for the Taliban have claim that phones, email accounts and a website belong to the collection were hacked, and text mail dispersed claim that their isolated Afghan leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had die from heart illness.

The unique SMS text messages were conventional from phone numbers belonging to Taliban spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid and Qari Yousuf, and read:

“Spiritual Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid has died. May Allah bless his soul?”

Zabihullah Mujahid angrily deprived of the rumours that Mullah Omar, one of the world’s most required men, was dead, in a meeting with Reuters.

“This is the work of American intelligence, and we will take revenge on the telephone network providers.”

Whether the mobile phones of Taliban spokesperson were in fact hacked, or whether their phone numbers were spoofed when distribution the messages, is unclear at this point in time. But it seems likely that the Taliban will be look into how it can better secure its infrastructure in future.

According to Zabihullah Mujahid, the United States has infertile access to the Taliban websites. If the US forces were accountable for the rumours of Mullah Omar’s death, in the hope of destabilize and puzzling the Taliban, it surely wouldn’t be a surprise.

After all, disinformation and mental fighting have been going on for hundreds of years. Mullah Mohammed Omar has been in trouncing since October 2001, with the USA offering a $10 million bounty for information most important to his capture.