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Was Kim Kardashian Twitter hacked or distress manipulates difficulty?

One of the huge stuff about being British is that I have almost no idea who Kim Kardashian might be. It turns out that many Americans aren’t fairly sure why she’s famous either. In fact, I forever consideration the Kardashians were an alien race in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

 

 

Though, according to the wonder of Wikipedia, I now know that Kim Kardashian is a model and realism TV star who rose to disrepute after she appear in a sex tape. In fact, she’s so famous that she has in excess of six million followers on Twitter.

The past, Kim Kardashian posted a message on Twitter claiming that she had been hacked. Here’s what she tweeted to her a lot of millions of followers:

 

 

Twitters please help me get my password back! How is it that I can tweet from my cell but my home computer says wrong password! #HACKED

Kim’s equally media-friendly sister Kourtney Kardashian also posted about the incident:

Positively, if Kim Kardashian had had her Twitter account hacked she wouldn’t be the first celebrity to have had problems in that area. Famous figures that have fallen victim to a Twitter hack in the past include Lil Wayne, Axl Rose, Britney Spears and plumy-voiced British TV property crumpet Kirsty Allsopp.

 

 

Even publications like the New York Times and humorous phenomenon ShitMyDadSays have fallen foul of hackers on Twitter. But was Kim Kardashian really hacked on Twitter as she claimed and thousands of her followers and celebrity chums retweeted?

It seems possible that she was mistaken. Her mobile phone still allowed her to post messages – including the one that claimed she had been hacked – even though she claimed she was unable to log in via Twitter.com.Is it possible that Miss Kardashian’s long fingernails caused her a little trouble entering her password, or that she’d simply forgotten what her password was, rather than her Twitter account had been hacked?

 

 

A few hours later, Kim Kardashian tweeted that normal service had resumed for her on Twitter:

My money is on user error rather than a genuine hack. After all, no abuse of her account appeared to occur – and the typical intruder would have found it impossible to resist posting a joke message or spammy link during the time when her account was allegedly “hacked“.But if it was true that both her Twitter and email address were hacked, you would expect the contact details and email addresses of many celebrities to now be in the hands of hackers.

Bare celebrity on LinkedIn direct to malware

A blog post by our friends at Trend Micro wedged my eye this morning, and got some of the guys within SophosLabs looking a small quicker at some of the profiles listed on the business networking site, LinkedIn. It’s astounding how many people signed-up on LinkedIn have words like “nude” and “naked” in their job title. It’s probable that some of these are genuine (for instance, the person who claims to be the Chief Nude Parachutist at a New York-based company), but many of them are not.

 

For example, I think it’s very improbable that Paris Hilton works for a firm called “company B”, and that she would want to post links claiming to be of her notorious sex video. Another celebrity who has fallen foul of a private home movie becoming public is Kim Kardashian. It seems that the hackers who have peppered LinkedIn with false profiles also believe that people will be probing for videos of her, and so they have created a page for her too.

 

 

Other names (of various levels of fame) with fake profiles on LinkedIn include Jaime Pressly, Christina Aguilera, Keri Russell, Zooey Deschanel, Lizzy Caplan, Brooke Hogan and Tila Tequila. Some of the links contained in these profiles are currently down, but SophosLabs can confirm that as recently as January 1st 2009 the malicious Troj/Decdec-A JavaScript code was being found on them, downloading further malware onto visiting computers.

 

 

It’s a shame that LinkedIn aren’t keeping a closer eye on clearly bogus profiles being shaped on their site. Certainly spammers, malware authors and other cybercriminals may be abusing the system to link to their WebPages in the hope that it will produce a higher ranking in search engines like Google.