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Twitter Celebrity Hacker Pleads Guilty In US
A British man pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk and stealing $794,000 in cryptocurrency.
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Google Tool That Shows How the Weather Is Like Around the World Gains Traction After Developer Quits
The tool, dubbed The Well-Tempered Traveler, was developed as an internal project and has become a topic of intense debate on Hacker News, soon after Manu Cornet quit the tech giant reportedly due to disagreements over some of the decisions Google made. However, his tool is still available on Google's domain as a testament to his contribution to th...
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Twitter's Security Problems Included Broad Access To User Accounts
Twitter Inc has struggled for years to police the growing number of employees and contractors who have the ability to reset users' accounts and override their security settings, a problem that Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey and the board were warned about multiple times since 2015, according to former employees with knowledge of the company's ...
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Hackers "Manipulated" Employees To Access High-Profile Accounts: Twitter
Twitter said hackers "manipulated" some of its employees to access accounts in a high-profile attack on the social media company, including those of Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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Twitter Warns Of "Unusual Activity" From China, Saudi; Shares Fall 7%
Twitter Inc shares fell almost 7 percent after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers and, in what appeared to be an unrelated issue, a security firm said hackers used the platform to try to steal user data.
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Hackers send fake terror alerts from NBC's Twitter
A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero
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Obama's Twitter account hacker arrested
French police have arrested a hacker who sabotaged the Twitter account of US President Barack Obama.
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Twitter briefly blocked by hackers
Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular Internet messaging service Twitter, steering traffic to another Web site where a group reportedly calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" claimed responsibility.
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Twitter Celebrity Hacker Pleads Guilty In US
A British man pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk and stealing $794,000 in cryptocurrency.
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Google Tool That Shows How the Weather Is Like Around the World Gains Traction After Developer Quits
The tool, dubbed The Well-Tempered Traveler, was developed as an internal project and has become a topic of intense debate on Hacker News, soon after Manu Cornet quit the tech giant reportedly due to disagreements over some of the decisions Google made. However, his tool is still available on Google's domain as a testament to his contribution to th...
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Twitter's Security Problems Included Broad Access To User Accounts
Twitter Inc has struggled for years to police the growing number of employees and contractors who have the ability to reset users' accounts and override their security settings, a problem that Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey and the board were warned about multiple times since 2015, according to former employees with knowledge of the company's ...
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Hackers "Manipulated" Employees To Access High-Profile Accounts: Twitter
Twitter said hackers "manipulated" some of its employees to access accounts in a high-profile attack on the social media company, including those of Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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Twitter Warns Of "Unusual Activity" From China, Saudi; Shares Fall 7%
Twitter Inc shares fell almost 7 percent after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers and, in what appeared to be an unrelated issue, a security firm said hackers used the platform to try to steal user data.
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Hackers send fake terror alerts from NBC's Twitter
A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero
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Obama's Twitter account hacker arrested
French police have arrested a hacker who sabotaged the Twitter account of US President Barack Obama.
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Twitter briefly blocked by hackers
Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular Internet messaging service Twitter, steering traffic to another Web site where a group reportedly calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" claimed responsibility.
