Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 7, 2009
Here is the video of Twitter being hacked by GMZ:
Apparently GMZ (the hacker and a 18 student) used a dictionary attack to login in into a Admin account. How was this possible? Well if you try to log in into Gmail or Hotmail and failed for x number of time, then [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 6, 2009
Earlier I posted about the reports of the phishing attacks against Twitter. Apparently high profile accounts i.e Obama, Britney where hacked. The good side is that the Hackers have a sense of humor, the bad thing is that they have been fixed.
It looks like the vector of attack here some tools that where used by [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 5, 2009
According to the Twitter blog, phishing scams targeted at Twitter users, have appeared. If you wonder what scammers are trying to achieve with it? Well think about it, there is a lot of value in Twitter account. Maybe not on the average Joe Twitter user, however there are a lot of high profile Twitter users, [...]
