Tag: HIJACK

On Thursday morning, a hacker hijacked the Twitter account belonging to Andi Arief, an aide to the president of Indonesia. But, instead of using the account to promote himself or post potentially embarrassing tweets, this hacker decided it would be a good idea to tell all of Indonesia that a major natural disaster was headed its way. "Besok Jakarta tsunami," read one of the tweets. Translation: ...

For about 18 minutes on April 8th, 2010, China proved just how easy it would be to hijack the Web. The country redirected 15-percent of global Internet traffic through its servers, affecting both commercial sites and government agencies. A report being published by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says that sites for NASA, the Senate, all four branches of the military and ...

Lately the news has been all about Facebook and the Koobface virus, a nasty specimen that poses as an updated version of Adobe's Flash video player. The virus installs itself on your computer, takes over your Facebook profile, and then sends itself to your friends. Now, that same style of attack has hit the latest social network to make it big, Twitter, compromising at least 750 accounts. Much ...