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account hijacking

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Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hijacked

February 11, 2020 0 Comments account hijacking, facebook, hijacked instagram accounts, hijacked twitter accounts, Instagram, khoros, ourmine, social media, Social networks, twitter, twitter hack

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:57:10 +0000

In full glare of the world, Facebook admins have found themselves in an unseemly struggle to wrestle back control of the company’s Twitter accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BzYBIavuyPc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter hands over student’s account to his college

February 4, 2020 0 Comments @sunygenseeo, access, account hijacking, account suspension, apology, geneseo, impersonation, impersonation policy, isaiah kelly, mistake, mockery, New York, parody account, policy, Social networks, state university of new york, suny, twitter, university

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:11:48 +0000

Twitter admitted it broke the rules when it handed over control of the student’s account to college administrators.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/THaPVg5m35Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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15 NFL teams’ Twitter hijacked in lead-up to the Super Bowl

January 29, 2020 0 Comments account hijacking, bears, bills, broncos, browns, bucs, cardinals, chiefs, colts, cowboys, eagles, facebook, football, giants, Hacked, hacking group, kansas city chiefs, khoros, national football league, nfl, ourmine, packers, san francisco 49ers, saudi arabia, security threats, Social networks, spredfast, super bowl, super bowl championship, texans, the 49ers, twitter, vikings

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:14:15 +0000

“We are here to show people that everything is hackable,” says hacking group OurMine, back to spread its unwelcome spiel on hacked accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ukSkVZya4UE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers

December 17, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, account hijacking, chrome, firefox, firefox extension, Google, Google Chrome, Mozilla, mozilla firefox, rogue extensions, two-factor authentication, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:57:53 +0000

Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/I5Jz7uFWAdM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Police arrest alleged Chuckling Squad member who hijacked @Jack Dorsey

November 27, 2019 0 Comments @jack, 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, account hijack, account hijacking, Celebrities, chuckling squad, debug, hack, Hacked, Jack Dorsey, Law & order, MFA, react, santa clara, security threats, SIM swaps, SMS, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:58:43 +0000

Debug, another Chuckling Squadder, told Motherboard that the kid was weird, “Swatting celebrities for a follow back.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/LWmwsxXvjmg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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YouTube ‘influencers’ get 2FA tokens phished

September 24, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, account hijacking, Google, modlishka, otp, reverse proxy toolkit, security threats, Social networks, titan, two-factor authentication, u2f, youtube, yubico

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:50:29 +0000

100K or so creators in the YouTube car community were targeted by a phishing campaign that captured 2FA codes.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/G-FEjS09n3I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter turns off SMS texting after @Jack hijacking

September 6, 2019 0 Comments @jack, 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, account hijack, account hijacking, Celebrities, Hacked, Jack Dorsey, MFA, security threats, SIM swaps, SMS, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:41:13 +0000

Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix &#38; its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2v_2dm33u_g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report: 53% of social media logins are fraudulent

August 28, 2019 0 Comments account hijacking, Botnet, bots, click farms, data loss, data scraping, holiday scams, logins, scripted attacks, security threats, Social engineering, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:16:32 +0000

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GlHMOtyrs8I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud

August 28, 2019 0 Comments account hijacking, Botnet, bots, click farms, data loss, data scraping, holiday scams, logins, scripted attacks, security threats, Social engineering, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:16:32 +0000

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GlHMOtyrs8I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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