The hacking group Anonymous has announced a new attack on SOPA and PIPA bills supporters on 31st January, encouraging people to join the protest. While supporting protests against these bills, ESET warns Internet users in India to think twice before getting involved in activities which look more like cyber-crime and less like activism. Anonymous has [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Anonymous announces new attack on ESPN on 31st January’12 for supporting SOPA and PIPA
Posted: 25th January 2012 by infosecindia in News, Scam, Social NetworksTags: Anonymous, ESPN, facebook, PIPA, SOPA, Twitter
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Manage permissions to all your apps centrally through MyPermissions
Posted: 5th January 2012 by infosecindia in News, Social NetworksTags: Apps, facebook, MyPermissions, mypermissions.org, Twitter
Apps on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are often a great way to enhance your experience on the platform and to fully utilise them. However, too many apps often create a managebility challenge, wherein it is difficult to identify what permission to grant to what app. To offer a solution to this problem, [...]
Twitter gives ‘verified account’ status to fake Wendi Deng Murdoch account
Posted: 3rd January 2012 by infosecindia in News, Scam, Social NetworksTags: Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Wendi Deng Murdoch
Soon after media baron Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter, a fake account by her wife’s name was setup by an imposter. The @Wendi_Deng Twitter account has been bemusing Twitter users for the last few days and managed to earn a (much coveted) blue tick from Twitter verifying its authenticity. While, the account creator has accepted that it [...]
“Profile me” bot spreading on Twitter
Posted: 27th December 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, News, Social NetworksTags: bot, profile me, Twitter
A new bot activity in Twitter has been observed by Kaspersky labs that is related to the new followers gaining only (at least for the time being). The “profile me” bot is exploring all Twitpic hosted pictures replying to the authors with the same text phrase: According to Kaspersky Labs blog, the bot started working [...]
Rogue app TimeSpentHere spreads virally on Twitter
Posted: 1st June 2011 by infosecindia in News, Scam, Social NetworksTags: rogue app, TimeSpentHere, Twitter
Some Twitter users have fallen for yet another rogue application, tricking them into believing that they will discover how many hours they have spent tweeting their little hearts out. A typical message reads: WOW –> I have spent 38.1 hours on Twitter! See how much you have: [LINK]
OMG CNN Confirmed Osama Is Alive – Scam spreads on Twitter
Posted: 24th May 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, News, Scam, Social NetworksTags: CNN, Osama Bin Laden, Phishing, Twitter, youtube
If you are seeing tweets right now from Twitter users, you may be misled into thinking that U.S. news organization CNN has revealed that Osama bin Laden is alive, Internet security firm Websense has reported. The tweets lead to a phishing page. Tweets are being posted by users right now at the rate of several [...]
Lord Gaga video banned? Twitter rogue app spread by scammers
Posted: 4th May 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, Social NetworksTags: Harry Potter, Lady Gaga, Lord Gaga, Lord Voldermort, scammers, Twitter
After a rogue video of Lady Gaga stormed Twitter, scammers are once again seeding an attack against Twitter users, posing as a banned video of “Lord Gaga” in an attempt to compromise accounts. The mention of “Lord Gaga” refers to a running-joke on Twitter today, about what would happen if Harry Potter villain Lord Voldermort [...]
Banned Lady Gaga video attack spreads on Twitter
Posted: 28th April 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, News, Social NetworksTags: #Don'tMakeMeCallTheApostles, Banned Lady Gaga video, bit.ly, Lady Gaga, rogue app, Sophos, Twitter
Watch out for tweets about a banned Lady Gaga video, currently spreading across the Twitter network, warns security firm Sophos. The tweets are being posted by rogue applications, that users are allowing to access their profiles in the belief that they will get to view a prohibited video of Lady Gaga VIDEO PROHIBIDO LADY GAGA [...]
Governments snooping more and more on Internet
Posted: 27th April 2011 by infosecindia in Data Privacy, DDoS, Law & OrderTags: Burma, China, Cuba, cyberattacks, facebook, Governments, Iran, snooping, Twitter, youtube
Freedom on the Internet is coming under more and more threat from governments around the world, according to the second ‘Freedom on the Net’ (FOTN) report by the Freedom Institute for 2011. The study of 37 countries found former Soviet republic Estonia to have the freest Internet, with a restriction of just 10 points, followed [...]
You “Unfollowed Me” on Twitter! Beware, it’s a rogue app
Posted: 20th April 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, Scam, Social NetworksTags: rogue app, Twitter, unfollowed me
Once again Twitter users are finding themselves hit by a fast-infecting attack, more commonly encountered by their Facebook-using cousins: a rogue application spreading virally across the network. Sophos reports that thousands of Twitter users have fallen into the trap of allowing rogue third-party applications access their Twitter accounts, believing that it would tell them how [...]