Deep Politics Forum

• Hackers falsely claim Obama dead on Fox Twitter feed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers took control of a FoxNews.com Twitter account on Monday and sent six false tweets saying that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead.
  

I can believe the Tweet. I can't believe Obama would go to Ross' restaurant in Ohio.

http://mashable.com/2011/07/05/secret-se...news-hack/

in 2009, the Secret Service tracked its source to a juvenile (no charges were filed). Similarly, two Twitter accounts that tweeted "ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the Assassinations and Lincoln & Kennedy. We'll surely get over a bullet to Barrack ...

Obama is alve and well, spotted numerous times in the Situation Room tracking the Twitter-enabled attacks on women and children in Libya.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/secu.../231000983

LulzSec's Top 3 Hacking Tools Deconstructed

Analysis suggests LulzSec was most effective using a relatively unknown vulnerability to launch large-scale, botnet-driven attacks against everyone from Sony to the Senate.
By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek
July 05, 2011 01:11 PM
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Slideshow: 10 Massive Security Breaches
In its 50-day hacking spree, how did the hacking group known as LulzSec manage to break into so many websites? All told, the group appears to have relied heavily on three attack techniques: using remote file include (RFI), SQL injections, and cross-site scripting. That's according to an analysis conducted by data security vendor Imperva, which studied the leaked LulzSec IRC chat logs recently published by the Guardian.

Daily Beast, Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 11:43am (PDT) We have entered a golden age for the nefarious world of hackers. According to a recent study published by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service, incidents of data compromise climbed more than 400 percent in 2010 from the previous year to 761 breaches.
Just in the past week, News Corp. has taken global heat after it allegedly hacked into phone records to score scoops, while its Fox News subsidiary had its Twitter feed hacked (publishing a report that President Obama was dead). Meanwhile, the hacker group Anonymous broke into an Apple site this weekend.

http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/...4162.story