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

Jul 25

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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”.

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

Jul 23

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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.

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Be cautious the Justin Bieber erection Face book scam

Jul 22

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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.

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Rumour of Taliban leader’s death News was hacked?

Jul 21

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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.

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Lady Gaga website stay eccentrically hushed in excess of database hack

Jul 19

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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

Jul 18

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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.

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Hackers defaced David Beckham’s website

Jul 15

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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

Jul 6

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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.

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

Jul 5

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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.

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How Amy Winehouse Site got hacked

Jul 4

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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.

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