NBC’s Twiiter Account, Hacked by Script Kiddies

NBC's Twitter account was hacked by Script Kiddies, falsely reporting that a plain crashed on ground zero in New York.
Hacker group – Script Kiddies – attacked the Twitter account of the NBC News, falsely reporting that an airliner crashed down into the Ground Zero in New York. The said group nfiltrated NBC’s Twitter account on Friday evening with the first message showing up on Twitter at 5:48pm.
After NBC requested Twitter to temporarily shut down its account, chief digital officer – Vivian Schiller – released a statement regarding the said incident on her Twitter account. She tweeted on Sunday morning that the NBC News Twitter account is back in their control.
Script Kiddies is the same group who hacked Fox News’ account early on the morning of July 4, and released a false report that President Obama was assassinated. The group is currently under investigation by the FBI, as NBC News reported on its Today news website on Saturday morning.
Talking on how the hackers gained access to NBC Twitter account, the network admitted that one of their employee clicked a malicious email attachment that might have allowed the Script Kiddies to get their password — which is only in the hands of the company’s three executives.
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Google launched a site that will allow people to send their questions to the GOP candidates of the upcoming Google/FOX News Debate.
Google launched a site that will enable users to post and vote for questions ahead of the next GOP primary debate.
The said upcoming debate, which is co-presented by Google and FOX News, will take place on September 22, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Google’s site, FOXNews/Google Debate will be collecting text and video questions from their users which will be asked on the upcoming debate. It will also allow users to weigh in which query they find most relevant.
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All We Like listed several helpful tips to secure your e-mail accounts and information from hackers.
After the widespread hacking attacks on high profile companies and government agencies, people are now aware that their private account information on the Internet are not totally safe. Sony PlayStation Network, CSI website, Fox News and PayPal UK’s Twitter accounts are some of the high profile accounts which were hacked. These incidents indicate the danger of low profile accounts being hacked too.
That’s why AllWeLike listed several tips to secure your accounts on different websites and the like. See the tips after the jump.
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Scriptkiddles broke into the Fox News' Twitter account and tweeted a hoax about Barrack Obama's assassination.
A group of hackers has broken into one of Fox News’ Twitter accounts, and used it to post a hoax about the assassination of U.S. President — Barrack Obama. The group call themselves Scriptkiddies.
Scriptkiddles controlled the Twitter account @foxnewspolitics, and brags about it on several Twitter accounts that is now suspended. The group also tweeted out several messages that talks about president Obama being fatally wounded on a shooting incident.
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