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Lady Gaga website stay eccentrically hushed in excess of database hack

Lady Gaga hacked gang of hackers known as SwagSec announce at the tail end of last week that they had hack into Lady Gaga’s UK website and complete off with a database of names and email addresses of fans. To show their point, they published the stolen data online.

The press reported that a source close to Lady Gaga said that she was:

“Upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen”

 

 


 

If she was trouble, she made no talk about of the hack on her Twitter page, and posts no request for forgiveness to her UK fans for the poor website safety. She wasn’t, though, too upset to chirp about Emmy award nomination or to drop a line to Cher about doing a duet remix.

Though its right that the establishment should be knowledgeable regarding SwagSec’s illegal behavior, there is supposed to certainly be some credit at Gaga HQ that perhaps the website was doing a lousy job at securing its fans’ information? Lady Gaga’s record label, worldwide, said it had inveterate that the hack had occurred and said that police had been informed.

 

“The hackers took a content database dump from www.ladygaga.co.uk and a part of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken. We take this very gravely and have put in place additional measures to protect for myself particular information. All those affected have been advised.”

 

The risk to users who had their details compromise, of course, is that they could have been the theme of targeted attacks. Imagine how many of them might have opened an attachment or clicked on a link if they received an email claim to be about free tickets for a Lady Gaga concert, or a sneak sample of her new video. But although Universal says that it has contacted everyone who was exaggerated – can they be confident that they know the extent of SwagSec’s hack? After all, the hack is claim to have occurred weeks ago, but was only made public by SwagSec at the end of previous week.

 

Wouldn’t it be more open and transparent to have a message to fans of the Lady Gaga UK website, telling them all what occurred? I went looking and couldn’t find anything to warn the wider array of Lady Gaga fans.

Hugh Hefner is NOT dead -hoax spreads through Internet

Hugh Hefner Hugh Hefner is the newest famous person to have been determined by rumors of his death, dispersal across the internet.

Social networks such as Face book and Twitter were abuzz with news of the end of the iconic creator of Playboy magazine, who has lately had a little trouble in matters of the heart when his Playmate fiancee Crystal Harris called off their marriage. According to reports, Hefner was supposed to have died of a heart attack on Monday 11th July at 10:58PM EST.


 

 

 

Would you have supposed the reports from your social networking associates, or gone hunt for further confirmation? After all, in the history we’ve seen internet rumors spread about the hypothetical death of Christian Slater and Tom Cruise. Also, neither Johnny Depp nor Harry Potter starlet Emma Watson nor Kanye West have died in a car crash either.

 

A website called ThinkRichMusic may have been partly accountable for rousing up the frantic coverage of the dressing gown-wearing octogenarian’s demise with its over-excitable reporting. Cynics may speculate if a website might be keen to post a false story concerning the death of a celebrity in order to take delivery of a flood of traffic from social networkers, trying to corroborate the news.

 

 

 

I’m satisfied to see that ThinkRichMusic has now post an addition to its article saying that Hefner is not dead. But I wonder how many people scroll down that far. I believe there’s a significant lesson for all internet users, to get their news from entrenched news sites. On too many occasion we have seen malware being distributed from poisoned WebPages that claim to contain breaking news or shocking videos featuring people in the headline.

 

Fortunately, the news of Hefner’s death was false, and the founder of Playboy magazine turned to twitter to announce, in the style of Mark Twain, that the rumors of his death were greatly overstated.

Hefner, ever the self-publicist, also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to point out that not only was he far from dead, but he was also “lying in bed” next to his new Playboy model girlfriend Shera Be chard with a “big smile on [his] face”.

Some belongings never change. Another thing which won’t change is cybercriminals taking advantage of internet memes and breaking news stories – whether they are based in truth or utter garbage.

Hackers defaced David Beckham’s website

The website of British football star David Beckham has been hack, with a figure of an unfortunate dog attempt to eat a basin of food painted on a street sign.

 

A message on the picture reads

“ScooterDAshooter = FAIL”


 

To be pale, Beckham almost certainly has other things to sidetrack him than his website’s safety right now. The past, his famous person wife Victoria Beckham gave birth to a daughter, who they have decided to name – in the style of a science fiction android – Harper Seven.

That does mean, of course, that more populace than customary might be visiting Beckham’s website in the trust of understanding more information about their happy event.

 

David Beckham hacked website code



 

Fortunately it appears that this particular hack is more about defacement than being hateful – if those who bankrupt in had chosen to; they could almost certainly have inserted malicious code into David Beckham’s website to install malware onto visiting computers.

And, in all significance, I doubt that David Beckham is a dab hand with an HTML editor and cascading style sheets, and he probably hires other people to maintain his website and be accountable for its security.

This isn’t the first time, of route, that a footballer’s website has been hack. For instance, Diego Maradona was dubbed a “cry-baby” after his website was hacked by a Peruvian football fan in 2009.

And previous this year, a hacker defaced Ronaldinho’s website with pictures that compare him to Star Wars hate figure Jar Jar Binks and Osama bin Laden.

Barrack Obama dead after hack in twitter

An administrator Twitter account belong to the political squad at Fox News has been compromise and fall into the hands of hackers who have post false stories claiming that Barrack Obama has been assassinated. The messages were posted at approximately 2am local time, and were quickly retweeted across the network.

 

 

Messages posted to the @FoxNewsPolitics account included:

 

BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It’s a sad 4th for #America. #obamadead RIP

 

And

 

We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new President of the United States. In such a time of madness, there’s light at the end of tunnel

 

The scoundrel tweet seems to have begun after a message was post on the FoxNewsPolitics account saying “Just regained full right of entry to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th”.

That message imply that whoever hack into the account compromise the email address of the person who administer the FoxNewsPolitics account, giving an unknown third-party the ability to post tweets at will. At the time of writing the false announcement are still present on the FoxNewsPolitics Twitter page – the July 4th Independence Day holiday may mean that no-one at Fox has been able to log into the account to take away the tweets.

 

A Twitter account vocation itself “TheScriptKiddie” has claim blame for the attack, but has since been balanced.

The Fox media territory appears to have haggard a lot of fire from hackers in new months. In May, hackers stole details of employee’s usernames and passwords and deface Twitter and LinkedIn pages.

 

Beforehand, the personal information of more than 250,000 people was stolen from Fox’s The X Factor show. Though some may be amused by the newest hack, users can clearly be place at risk if an account is browbeaten by an important person with malicious intentions (they could link to a website containing malware, as we recently saw with the recent breach of Simon Pegg’s account for example).

 

The workers of Fox accountable for the management of the company’s social media financial records might be wise to refresh their information of password security and check that their computers have not been compromised with spyware.

Lil Wayne’s Twitter account pushes to down after hack assault

Lil Wayne’s Twitter account has been taken offline, after a celebrity hacked into the well-liked rapper’s account this weekend and posted a series of joke post.A hacker, who apparently guesses the singer’s password, sent a series of bizarre post to Lil Wayne’s 1.2 million groups – counting impolite tweets to celebrity pals 50 Cent, Soulja Boy and The Game. According to AllHipHop.com, some of the verbal communication used was extremely unpleasant.

 

 

Mind you, some fan of music like that is almost certainly used to repugnant language.

Lil Wayne has at the present shut down his Twitter account, which went by the name @liltunechi. To be truthful, he hasn’t had the most excellent of times on Twitter – his sheet was before hacked late last year, with fake news being posted about future performance.

 

Clearly if he can’t keep manage of his Twitter account; it’s improved that it be disabling.

If nil else, this case prove that just since a Twitter account is “verified” it doesn’t signify that it actually is the celebrity (or an authorized representative) who is responsibility the tweeting. Additional celebrity who have had their Twitter accounts hack in the past include Axl Rose, politican Ed Miliband, Britney Spears and plumy-voiced TV property crumpet Kirsty Allsopp.

 

 

Make certain that you always choose a non-dictionary word that’s firm to guess as your Twitter password, and by no means use the same password on numerous websites. Also, be on your protector next to phishing sites and make sure that your processor is organization up-to-date anti-virus software to protect against key logging spyware which may attempt to take your information.

 

Finally, consider carefully which third-party applications and websites you allow to attach with your Twitter account.

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

Simon PeggBritish comic actor Simon Pegg, celebrity of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most newly the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account has been hacked in sort to extend malware to his 1.2 million followers.

 

Simon Pegg usually tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, but the aberrant communication was sent via the Twitter for BlackBerry application instead.

 

Download the new “Paul” Screen Saver [LINK] after download right click and press test to install.

 

Download the new Paul Sceen Saver [LINK] after download right click and press test to install.

Fans of Simon Pegg hurried to download the screensaver, only for a lot of of them to report that their anti-virus software had established a Trojan horse in the ScreenSaver.exe file being associated to.

Pegg posted a few messages representing that he supposed his account had been hacked, claim that he did not post any messages about a screensaver, and caution fans of the “computer virus” threat. He doesn’t shred his words about what he thinks of the hacker accountable.

 

And Pegg is right – it’s not a risk-free file. It’s a banking Trojan that Sophos detects as Troj/VBBanker-A.

Obviously, it is a appropriate caution to all internet users to believe long and hard before running or installing any unidentified happy on their computers.

 

Though the malware in this case is Windows-specific, funnyman Pegg couldn’t resist cracking a joke:

 

It’s no pleased matter, of course, for Simon Pegg’s Twitter followers – any of whom could have been putting their processor at risk if they downloaded and ran a hateful file.Famous figures that have fallen victim to a Twitter hack in the precedent comprise Ashton Kutcher, Lil Wayne, Axl Rose, Britney Spears and plumy-voiced British TV property crumpet Kirsty Allsopp.

 

Even publication like the New York Times and humorous phenomenon ShitMyDadSays have fallen foul of hackers on Twitter.It’s worth attitude in mind, though, that sometimes celebrities might have claimed to have been hacked on Twitter when in fact it’s quite possibly not true.

Attire break down capture used in Face book scam

Marika Fruscio I have to admit I had never heard of Marika Fruscio, at what time this scam spreading on Face book was first brought to my attention.

 

 

But a rapid make sure on Wikipedia exposed that she is a model and Italian TV hostess, whose main payment to well-liked culture is that she had amazing of a wardrobe malfunction on live TV during a soccer show called “Diretta Stadio”.

 

Obviously, the spammers at the back the latest scam dispersion fast across Face book were improved familiar with Miss Fruscio than me. I think maybe I would like to keep it that way.

 

Here’s the message that is appear on many people’s Face book newsfeeds:

 

Yeahh!! It happens on Live Television!

 

Yeahh!! It happens on Live Television!

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Lol Checkout this video it’s very embracing moment for her

I think they meant “embarrassing” rather than “embracing”, but spell has rarely been scammers’ strong point.

 

And it doesn’t appear to matter if you recognize Marika Fruscio or not. I think she isn’t recognized outside of her native Italy, and yet the messages are appearing on users’ Face book pages around the world, tempting their online friends to click to see more.

 

Yeahh!! It happens on Live Television! Marika Fruscio Face book scam

 

Your browser goes to a webpage which claim that it’s about to show you a video of the powerful Marika Fruscio lessening from grace on live television.Fascinatingly, on this time some of the graphics are not depiction properly – perhaps the imgur website which is portion the real graphics in this example is aware that its imagery are being ill-treated and so have removed them.

 

The page needs you to click “Jaa”, and claims that responsibility so will confirm your age. The truth is that it will do not anything of the sort.The scammers want you to “share” the video with your Face book friends before they’ll let you watch. The message is in Finnish and – you guessed it – “Jaa” is Finnish for “Share”.

 

Yeahh!! It happens on Live Television! Marika Fruscio Face book scam

 

And here come the payload. If you tear the link with your friends, thus serving it spread virally across the Face book social net, you will then be obtainable with an online review. The scammers make commission each and every time a survey is finished – now do you see why they were so keen for you to help them spread the link around?

 

Fortunately it’s easy to remove the scam from your Face book page.

 

Maybe if folks showed a little more restraint when presented with sexy messages on their Face book newsfeed these sorts of scams wouldn’t spread so quickly.

Brad Pitt falls victim to celebrity death spam

A vast increase in potentially dangerous celebrity death spam has encouraged security firm Symantec to caution users not to open morbid post.

 

Beleaguered celebrities comprise Beyoncé Knowles, Bon Jovi, Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Gwen Stefani, with these newest attacks using a topic line that always contains the words ‘died’ or ‘Fatal Crash’.“Strange stories of celebrities have abruptly erupted in the spam ring, which explain their deaths in plane crashes or car accidents. The purpose of distribute such false news is to spread viruses using HTML or zipped attachments,” the firm wrote in a blog post.

 

“This is an old trick of using celebrity names to tempt recipients into opening malicious URL or attachments.”The memo usually claims that the celebrity in question has died along with 34 other people in a plane that stopped into the side of a ton on approach to an airport.

 

Recipients who want more particulars are then urged to open an attachment. This attachment, called “Hot News.zip”, contains an executable file that Symantec has recognized as Trojan.Zbot. “By using product names such as well-known news agencies gives [the spammer] the much-needed credibility in order to gain trust in the recipient’s mind,”

 

“Users ought to follow normal practices of not breach any doubtful links or attachments conventional in unsolicited email or from an unexpected source.”

Break Up Of Lady Gaga Computers By Hackers

According to The Telegraph, German prosecutors are reproachful two limited hackers of breaking into the computers of over 50 pop stars, as well as Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake and Kesha.

(Wouldn’t you have to be pretty brave to blackmail Lady Gaga? She can be, um, scary. )

Ralf Haferkamp, from the Duisburg prosecutor’s office, thought in an interview with Deutsche Welle that the hackers, two boys of 17 and 23 from the West of Germany, impure the machines with malware in sort to steal all sorts of files.

 

 

A stolen possession supposedly purloined by the duo includes credit cards details, private pictures, emails and unreleased songs. Prosecutors also assert that the suspect managed to sell some of the musical fabric on the internet – where, because it has not been formally released, it can get high prices.So how did the two men get caught? The Telegraph news that the hacker duo bragged about their wicked activities on the web. If culpable of the crime then this would propose that the pair is not only greedy, but foolish show-offs too.

 

Of course, Lady Gaga isn’t the primary pop star to have caught the notice of cybercriminals. In the past we’ve reported on how celebrities such as Lil’ Kim, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, and Britney Spears have had their computers, email or social networking accounts out of order into by malicious hackers.

 

In case you wanted reminding – celebrities aren’t actually that different from the rest of us. Everyone who has a computer has to take rational steps to guard it against malicious hackers and cybercriminals.