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Julianne Hough leaked photos published subsequent to phone hack

Julianne Hough is famous in the United States not now for being an actress and country music singer, and dating “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest, but also for having won ABC’s “Dancing with the stars” TV show two times.

 

So, barely the kind of woman who you would think would require resorting to a cheap publicity stunt to raise her profile.

But no hesitation there are skeptics who are right now wonder if the news that her mobile phone was “hacked” and one hundred of her confidential photographs published on the net is not anything more than a way of gaining attention.

Since she surely is getting notice from various showbiz websites – with some flagrantly republishing photographs which are most probably stolen property with headlines like

Julianne Hough Gets Hacked – Check Out Her Sexy Bikini & Cleavage Shots!

 

There’s nothing chiefly salacious to be establish in the photos that have been in print – Julianne has a standing for being a “good girl” – but clearly the photos of her posing in her bikini and sunbathing were intended for her eyes only (or at least hers and perhaps Ryan Seacrest’s). Those eager for titillating images of the dancer topless or doing a watusi with Ryan Seacrest will be mightily disappointed.

 

iPhoneA quick check of Miss Hough’s Twitter feed reveal that she usually posts messages from her Apple iPhone.

 

It’s unclear how photos would have been stolen from the iPhone, if not an important person else had physical right of entry to the device, to a computer the iPhone had been synched with, or if the photos had been uploaded to the net in some way (in the case of the latter it’s not really a phone hack is it?)

 

Yet, there’s some very simple advice I can give to any promising starlet who might be worried about Yprivate photos of themselves leaking into the public.

 

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.

Bill Cosby Death Hoax Peaks once more nowadays on Twitter

So far one more celebrity death hoax strike the internet and as a trending topic on Twitter. Go figure. So far this year Bill Cosby has died three, four, and five times, so they say on Twitter.

According to the hoaxers, he died in February, March and August of 2010. However, Bill Cosby also died in February and March of 2009. One tweet posted dates of Bill Cosby’s death hoax being March 29, 2007, April 1, 2007, June 23, 2009, and today, August 2, 2010.

 

After doing a Google look for for Bill Cosby Died, I found he died, March 24 and 25, 2010, and July 25, 2010. Including today’s Twitter trend, Bill Cosby has died at least 5 times in 2010.

Currently there are moreover a lot of Bill Cosbys in the world or an important person like to get off on live such a sick prank. Since I did the Google of Bill Cosby, the actor and comic is the only one that has came up as any orientation to a Bill Cosby dying.

Though the hoax of Bill Cosby’s death hasn’t hit Google trends as of 2:47 P.M. CST. Since I have heard nil on the news, CNN, Fox, or otherwise, Bill Cosby is still alive, kicking, and cracking jokes at the age of 73.

As citing my source for this article, I went back to Twitter for the “Bill Cosby Died” link. Another Twitter tendency came up “Bill Cosby ain’t dead” showed as a Twitter trend.

So folks until you hear it on the news or read it in the paper, don’t believe Bill Cosby is dead.

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.

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.

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.

How Amy Winehouse Site got hacked

A hacking group vocation itself SwagSec has out of order into the official website of songster Amy Winehouse and deface it by posting an expletive-filled message and an image of the rapper Lil’ B.

The hacking gang, which according to its Twitter feed claims to be based in South Africa, describe the troubled singer as a “Racist crack head devil b****” and say it plans to “take back the Internet from the white devil.”

What charmers.

 

At the occasion of writing, Amy Wine house’s administrator website is redirect to her Face book page. Most probably her website administrators are keen to take the site offline until they are sure that it is now correctly tenable. It’s additional bad news for the beehive-wearing Winehouse, who previous this month cancelled future tour date after a devastating reply presentation in Belgrade.

 

 

We contain to be grateful, of route, that the assault appears to have been more akin to mindless graffiti, than an effort to plant malware on a popular singer’s internet site. The merely small solace for Amy Winehouse is that she’s not the first singer to have suffered from website hackers.

 

For example, in 2009, Paul McCartney’s official website had malicious code planted on it by hackers which downloaded code to spy on users as they logged into their online bank financial records. Possibly the most bizarre story of a musician having his website “hacked“, however, is that of Van Morrison.

 

 

 

At the end of 2009, it was widely report that Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison had had a child with American record producer Gigi Lee, after a statement announcing the birth of George Ivan Morrison III was published on the music legend’s website. You would wait for that this wasn’t news welcomed by Van Morrison’s wife Michelle. And the singer quickly claimed that the announcement was bogus and the result of hackers breaking into his website.

It seemed like a tall story at the time to blame the announcement conveniently on hackers, and can be considered even more so if you read this deeper investigation by the Mail. Regardless of Van Morrison’s possibly tangled love life, and Amy Wine house’s battles with addiction, there’s a message for all of us in the latest website hack.

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.