http://www.scmagazine.com/twitter/topic/1215/ Articles tagged with Twitter from SC Magazine SC Magazine custserv@haymarketmedia.com no Charlie Miller, well-known for his work in penetration testing, will be joining Twitter's security team. http://www.scmagazine.com/twitter-adds-famed-security-expert-to-team/article/259126/ Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:41:12 GMT Charlie Miller, well-known for his work in penetration testing, will be joining Twitter's security team. SC Magazine For the first time in nearly a year, Twitter suffered a prolonged outage Thursday, leaving its 140 million active monthly users without micro-blogging capabilities. http://www.scmagazine.com/twitter-vanishes-for-an-hour-but-was-it-a-bug-or-ddos/article/246821/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:17:44 GMT For the first time in nearly a year, Twitter suffered a prolonged outage Thursday, leaving its 140 million active monthly users without micro-blogging capabilities. SC Magazine Sites such as Facebook and Twitter contain seemingly infinite amounts of personal data, so it's no wonder criminals have turned their focus there. But social media providers and end-users can protect themselves. http://www.scmagazine.com/on-fertile-ground-social-networking/article/241701/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:00:00 GMT Sites such as Facebook and Twitter contain seemingly infinite amounts of personal data, so it's no wonder criminals have turned their focus there. But social media providers and end-users can protect themselves. SC Magazine A web-based business embraced social media as a business enabler...after putting in place the right tool, reports Greg Masters. http://www.scmagazine.com/social-surety-netspend-and-actiance/article/250014/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:02:00 GMT A web-based business embraced social media as a business enabler...after putting in place the right tool, reports Greg Masters. SC Magazine Just 32 percent of U.S. IT and IT security practitioners said their company has a policy that addresses the acceptable use of social media by employees in the workplace. http://www.scmagazine.com/most-businesses-lack-social-media-security-controls/article/213161/ Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:39:00 GMT Just 32 percent of U.S. IT and IT security practitioners said their company has a policy that addresses the acceptable use of social media by employees in the workplace. SC Magazine The Twitter account belonging to the USA Today was hacked over the weekend by a group called The Script Kiddies. In tweets posted from the compromised account, the hacktivist group bragged about past hacking feats, and urged users to "like" them on Facebook and vote on who they should infiltrate next. It is unclear how the hackers were able commandeer control of the account. The same group also claimed responsibility earlier this month for hacking the NBC News Twitter account and sending a series of erroneous tweets. In that case, a trojan permitted the takeover. http://www.scmagazine.com/usa-today-twitter-account-hacked-by-the-script-kiddies/article/212860/ Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:02:25 GMT The Twitter account belonging to the USA Today was hacked over the weekend by a group called The Script Kiddies. In tweets posted from the compromised account, the hacktivist group bragged about past hacking feats, and urged users to "like" them on Facebook and vote on who they should infiltrate next. It is unclear how the hackers were able commandeer control of the account. The same group also claimed responsibility earlier this month for hacking the NBC News Twitter account and sending a series of erroneous tweets. In that case, a trojan permitted the takeover. SC Magazine A group of hacktivists was able to compromise the NBC News Twitter account on Friday by tricking the network's social media head into clicking on a malicious attachment. According to an MSNBC report, a group known as The Script Kiddies commandeered control of the account to send a series of tweets falsely reporting an attack on Ground Zero in New York, two days before the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The mischief makers may have obtained the account's login information by duping Ryan Osborn, NBC News' director of social media, into clicking on an attachment, which installed a copy of the password-stealing "Christmas tree" trojan onto his machine. The erroneous tweets were removed soon after they were posted, and the FBI is looking into the matter. Twitter has since suspended the account of the The Script Kiddies, who also have hacked into the Facebook account of Pfizer. http://www.scmagazine.com/nbc-twitter-hack-attributed-to-christmas-tree-trojan/article/211981/ Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:29:08 GMT A group of hacktivists was able to compromise the NBC News Twitter account on Friday by tricking the network's social media head into clicking on a malicious attachment. According to an MSNBC report, a group known as The Script Kiddies commandeered control of the account to send a series of tweets falsely reporting an attack on Ground Zero in New York, two days before the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The mischief makers may have obtained the account's login information by duping Ryan Osborn, NBC News' director of social media, into clicking on an attachment, which installed a copy of the password-stealing "Christmas tree" trojan onto his machine. The erroneous tweets were removed soon after they were posted, and the FBI is looking into the matter. Twitter has since suspended the account of the The Script Kiddies, who also have hacked into the Facebook account of Pfizer. SC Magazine Blanket censorship of social media in the UK might be unlikely, but targeted blocking based on legal interception isn't out of the question. http://www.scmagazine.com/social-media-and-political-certainties/article/209591/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:54:20 GMT Blanket censorship of social media in the UK might be unlikely, but targeted blocking based on legal interception isn't out of the question. SC Magazine The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the compromise of the the Twitter account belonging to Fox News Politics, which was used to post a number of fake tweets reporting that President Obama had been assassinated, an agency spokesman told SCMagazineUS.com. A hacking group known as The Script Kiddies, an offshoot of Anonymous, has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to reports. The fraudulent tweets, delivered to some 38,000 followers of @foxnewspolitics during the early morning hours EST on Monday, have since been removed from the feed. It is unclear how the hackers got access to the account. http://www.scmagazine.com/secret-service-probing-fox-twitter-hack/article/206836/ Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:07:32 GMT The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the compromise of the the Twitter account belonging to Fox News Politics, which was used to post a number of fake tweets reporting that President Obama had been assassinated, an agency spokesman told SCMagazineUS.com. A hacking group known as The Script Kiddies, an offshoot of Anonymous, has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to reports. The fraudulent tweets, delivered to some 38,000 followers of @foxnewspolitics during the early morning hours EST on Monday, have since been removed from the feed. It is unclear how the hackers got access to the account. SC Magazine The website belonging to a man in Pakistan who unknowingly live tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was found to be infected with malware. http://www.scmagazine.com/osama-bin-laden-killing-prompts-malware-facebook-scams/article/201976/ Mon, 02 May 2011 20:51:06 GMT The website belonging to a man in Pakistan who unknowingly live tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was found to be infected with malware. SC Magazine