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Not the Haus of Gaga too

By Prefect ⋅ November 17, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Around 9pm EST on Monday the Twitter account of pop singer Lady Gaga, @ladygaga was cracked in to and a series of messages added to her tweet stream. This is the second high profile Twitter account to be cracked in the last few days, on Friday the account of pop singer Britney Spears, @BritneySpears, started professing sympathy for the devil. The Lady Gaga one is interesting though, because like an homage to old school cracks of the past, the attackers appear to have left their name. Further these are two high profile accounts broken into after Twitter has implemented at least three major changes to their web site’s authentication process.

The Perfect Crime, the perfect alibi: My Facebook Status

By Prefect ⋅ November 12, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

The NY Times brings us the story of Rodney Bradford. He’s the 19 year old Brooklyn man whose lawyer, Robert Reuland, invoked one of the first known “Facebook alibis” in his defense of the 19 year old Bradford on what were a second set of robbery charges he was facing. Since the Facebook defense is [...]

Facebook’s Faith: A New Scareware Attack

By Prefect ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

On Thursday morning, AVG researcher Roger Thompson, after sourcing some spyware attacks to a series of Facebook profiles, noted that these few hundred profiles were showing up with the same profile image (seen at left) but different profile information. The home video link on these profiles, belonging to Faith / Emily / whoever, points to the a web site that displays scareware dialogs.

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