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At this time, we believe attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme. What does this mean? In this context, social engineering is the intentional manipulation of people into performing certain actions and divulging confidential information. The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal […]
The Twitter/Bloomberg Hoax
The Bloomberg/Twitter impersonation hoax was hardly the first such market manipulation scheme to make headlines, nor even the first to exploit and make use of Bloomberg.
Swiss Bank Feels Force of Cyber Attack in the Social Media Age | Compliance Week
Today, after rejecting extortion demands from a group of hackers called Rex Mundi, Swiss bank Banque Cantonale de Geneve had tens of thousands of its emails and customer records released via the hackers’ Twitter feed. via Swiss Bank Feels Force of Cyber Attack in the Social Media Age | Compliance Week
Maria Miller row: Department’s Twitter feed hacked — BBC News
Rogue tweets poking fun at under-fire Culture Secretary Maria Miller were posted on an official government Twitter feed on Saturday evening, after the account was hacked. Three tweets appeared on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s feed and were quickly deleted, but not before they were shared on social media. via Maria Miller row: […]