Twitter bug exposes 330 million users Login Information
Twitter users around the world have witnessed a downtime for a couple of hours on Thursday. An official statement from the social network giant says that the downtime could have been caused due to a bug in its internal servers which could have also exposed login info of more than 330 million Twitter users. According […]
After Facebook Twitter gets entangled in Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook has made it official early this month that his company did share details of its 87 million US users with British Political Consulting Firm Cambridge Analytica. He also testified his statement before the Congress and added that he and his company will from now on follow strict rules when […]
LocalBlox builds 48 million profiles by extracting sensitive information from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter users
LocalBlox a data telemetry firm is said to have used sensitive info from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zillow platforms to create a ‘3-dimensional’ picture of over 48 million users. A report from security firm UpGuard said that the information was used for advertising or political campaigns. What’s more alarming in this whole saga is the […]
Facebook alleges Google, Twitter and Amazon also harvest user data
Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal seems to have started a blame game. In a recent blog post put on the company’s official blog the social media giant has pointed fingers at Google, Amazon and Twitter for using data collection tactics as it does. Furthermore the worlds leading social networking website said that Google […]
John McAfee Twitter Account Hacked!
John McAfee, owner of California based Security Software Company McAfee Associates has announced to the world that his Twitter Account was hacked last week and was being used to promote obscure cryptocurrencies. The 73-year old tech pioneer added in his statement that the breach was in no way related to his company’s inefficient cybersecurity credentials, […]
Twitter allows 3rd party apps for authentication to provide Information Security to its Users
Twitter is now allowing third-party apps for 2-factor authentication to provide Information Security to all its users. Thus, this service will now allow a second layer of authentication and protection for Twitter Accounts rather than allowing their users just needing a username and password to log-in which could make their accounts vulnerable to hackers. In […]
TOP #INFOSEC TWITTER ACCOUNTS (FROM A THREAT HUNTER’S PERSPECTIVE)
This post was originally published here by Danny Akacki. On the heels of our “Hunting For Web Shells” webinar, I wanted to follow up with a short post that came from an attendee question. I’m paraphrasing here but it was something along the lines of, “I’m new to the infosec world, where can I go […]
HBO Twitter Accounts hacked after Cyber Attack!
In July this year, cyber crooks launched a cyber attack on the database of Hollywood Box Office(HBO) to steal 1.5 terabytes of proprietary data which includes few episodes of “Game of Thorns- Season 7”. After getting hold of the data, the hacker named “Mr. Smith” demanded a ransom of several million dollars worth in bitcoins […]
Cyber Attacks on Twitter Accounts
Thousands of Twitter accounts were hacked by cyber crooks on Wednesday who posted messages praising Turks and disgraced Dutch with Nazi names. As per our sources, the attack was launched through a popular data tracking service and contained abusive messages along with Swastika symbol. A video containing clips of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was […]
Twitter users are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
Twitter is facing an issue related to the massive network of fake accounts which are putting all its users at risk of being cyber attacked. According to a new research conducted by a team of experts from the UK, analysts discovered that there were more than 350,000 bogus twitter accounts used to fabricate followers, send […]
