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It’s not your Internet connection so don’ panic, Twitter was down for everyone. Twitter was down almost all over the world for over 15 minutes. We asked our readers in Australia, India, Pakistan and US who confirmed that the social media giant was down. It is unclear what’s the reason behind the outage however last month […]
The East Coast was under siege on Friday morning from a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought down more than a dozen prominent websites, including Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, GitHub, Amazon and Reddit. The initial attack was followed later in the day by at least two more waves of attack. The attack against […]
Update DNS provider Dyn has confirmed two massive distributed denial of service attacks against its servers Friday impacting many of its customers including Twitter, Spotify and GitHub. The attacks came in two waves, one early Friday morning and a second just a few hours later. “This attack is mainly impacting U.S. East and is impacting Managed […]
Fueled by the lack of Pokémon GO in Brazil, a hacker group called OurMine took control of Niantic CEO John Hanke’s Twitter account today. Hanke and the development team at Niantic Labs in San Francisco had no idea how much of an impact Pokémon GO would have in the mobile space when it began rolling […]
Short Bytes: An Indian security researcher was able to find Vine’s source code in plain sight. All he had to do was run a pull request of Vine’s publicly visible Docker image and he was even able to host Vine’s website locally. After he reported the bug to Twitter, the company patched the flaw and […]
There’s something fishy about this botnet. Social media and advertising fraud investigations firm Sadbottrue has discovered a botnet of three million Twitter accounts, along with two smaller botnets of 100,000 bots each, which they suspect to be behind online services that sell or rent Twitter followers. Selling Twitter followers is a lucrative business, even if Twitter […]
The chief executive of tech support firm Zendesk has become the latest high-profile figure to have his Twitter account hacked. Mikkel Svane’s hijacked account had its ID image changed to that of a cartoon. It follows similar attacks against accounts owned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, musicians Keith Richards, Katy Perry and Bon Iver and the […]
Passwords for 32 Million Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked. After the mega hacks of last month, it is now time for Twitter. But there is a twist in this news. It seems that Twitter was hacked and the hacker managed to steal Twitter user ids and passowords of 32 million users. However, […]
Short Bytes: In a surprising incident, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were compromised this Sunday. A Saudi Arabia-based hacking group managed to hack his account using credentials found in the recent LinkedIn breach. Interestingly, the hackers tweeted that his LinkedIn password was “dadada”. While Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is mainly active on his own […]
Short Bytes: It looks like a hacker got access to pop-star Katy Perry’s Twitter account and tweeted strange messages to her 90 million followers. Included in those tweets, there was a message for Taylor Swift and other series of insults. This morning, things turned pretty confusing for the followers of Katy Perry when her Twitter […]
A password reset flaw allowed hacker to hijack numerous Twitter accounts from their original owners. Twitter followers of @god, @emoji, and @vagina were in for surprise today when their favourite Twitter accounts started tweeting spam. @God who has around 180,000 followers normally tweets memes however the new owners hijacked it to tweet spam. The last tweet […]
Twitter is down. Yes, the social media giant’s website and mobile apps are inaccessible at the moment. Visitors to the website were greeted by a message telling them that “Something is technically wrong”. “Thanks for noticing,” the message reads. “We’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.” Mobile apps as well as […]
Image | fossBytes Short Bytes: A group of teenage hackers has traced multiple ISIS Twitter accounts to the UK Government’s Department of Work and Pensions. Addressing the issue, the UK officials revealed that some IP addresses were sold to Saudi Arabian firms back in October and it appears that some of them are being used […]
Short Bytes: Belgian people have found a new weapon to deal with the terror threats in the form of cat pics. As police didn’t want people to tweet pictures of the recent police operation, Belgians responded with cat pictures to send a message to terrorists and confuse them. Tweeting cat pictures is the last thing […]
Hacking group remains as focused as one week ago Quite a lot has happened after Anonymous declared cyber-war on ISIS members last weekend, but now, after a week passed from the Paris attacks, the group is proudly announcing that it managed to track and take down over 20,000 ISIS-related Twitter accounts. To review last week’s […]
Short Bytes: Russia has yet again displayed stifling laws as it demanded the micro-blogging site Twitter to set up local data centres for its users, else face strict penalties. The country has changed its earlier stance on excluding Twitter from its data protection law due to some changes in the website’s user agreements. Provision of […]
This small piece of python code will find the people stealing your tweets and copy-pasting them on their twitter timeline. This python script project is called TweetThief, you can download this python code on GitHub. Author of this project is David Longenecker, you can follow him on twitter @dnlongen. You need to have Twitter API module for […]
Tool to check malware in Twitter URLs to be tested during European Football Championships next summer. An intelligent system has been created by computer scientists to identify malicious links disguised in shortened URLs on Twitter. Scientists were inspired to carry out further research on the problem, following a Cardiff University study that could identify potential cyber-attacks […]
Image: Twitter Short Bytes: The Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest superstar, has been hacked and some adult sites have been added as ‘following’. A tweet from Mr. Bachchan’s official Twitter handler @SrBachhan says: “WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked ! Sex sites planted as ‘following’ ! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous has been fighting an online battle against the Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL). And now they have just extended their fight against the organization by targeting those who express sympathy with the group’s ideology over social media platforms. The hacktivist group has using Japanese anime characters against a list of over 750 Twitter […]
Welcome to the second post of the series covering top open source projects by most popular companies in the world. Last time, we covered Facebook’s contribution to open source community and in this article, we are going to highlight most popular open source projects made by twitter engineering team. Twitter engineers use, contribute to and […]