Sunday, September 11, 2011

Hackers spread terror among the flag from NBC

9/11-VandalismusHackers spread terror among the flag from NBC
A hacker group has about the Twitter account of the U.S. television network NBC distributed a fake terrorist message: You tweeted the claim that Ground Zero in New York had been hit by an airplane. Twitter helped quickly - but range from the security measures of the service?
The account "NBCNews" has over 130,000 followers, so many people have subscribed so the news that spread it. On Friday evening, U.S. time there appeared suddenly very disturbing reports: "Breaking News Ground Zero has just been attacked Flight 5736 crashed there is a suspected kidnapping!.." Shortly after it was alleged that another plane had been hijacked. , Said was the "NBCNews" account "This is no joke," "we try to bring reporters to the scene."
A few minutes later, however, gave the attacker himself clear. "NBCNews was hacked by script kiddies," twittered the unknowns. Several NBC employees, including the social media charge Ryan Osborn and for NBC's digital business responsible Vivian Schiller, tried shortly afterward to limit the damage, also via Twitter: "Please disregard until further tweets" @ NBCNews "I believe we. hacked. Retweets not send them. " A look at the main page of "@ NBCNews" enough however to see that there something wrong was: instead of the station logo emblazoned there one in certain circles as a running gag used cartoon character, was in the self-description to read the account had been taken over by the "script kiddies".
A little later on NBC's account was temporarily shut down, apparently fast help came from the Twitter HQ. It took only 15 minutes, according to "Business Insider", to not only cracked the account of the TV station, but the attacker was blocked.
"Disgusting prank '
The self-description in "@ s_kiddies," the now locked account to which the attacker had made themselves as their Twitter home was, according to "BusinessJournalism.org": "Anonymous Supporter:: Hacker:: benefit from simple methods to hilarious to achieve results: Sometimes just for fun ("for lulz teh"):: We are the script kiddies ".
Much sympathy with the attackers found her tasteless joke two days before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 no. Of a "nasty trick", said about the "Business Insider". "Washington Post" blogger Melissa Bell called the action "shocking and cruel." For the reputation of Anonymous should such actions be disastrous in the medium term.
"Script kiddie" is a kind of ironic self-incrimination: the name given to would-be hackers who can not get much from the Internet and available software snippets, called scripts, simple attack tools together yourself. In the case of "NBCNews" only the password for the account had to guess or figure out other ways, and that was obviously not safe enough.
It is by far not the first time that Twitter accounts are abducted and abused in this way. Also, the accounts of celebrities like Britney Spears have been taken once before, in spring it hit the right-wing news channel Fox News. It was then circulated through the Account, President Obama had been shot.
Twitter hastened to communicate this time, there had been no attack on your own server, only the password for the NBC account was stolen to be revealed.
"Damaged brands, made a fool of hackers"
Security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos warned the company in response to the current case, more security on Twitter. In technical blog "Naked Security", he warned: "Only a combination of user name and password is not enough, if a social media account is an important part of your business or your public image." Cluley asked to collect such accounts for a further authentication step, how to do that knows about the online banking. "If you do not, we will continue to see how important hacked Twitter account and brands may be harmed because they make a fool of hackers."
With Twitter itself, many users expressed their disgust about the bad joke: "Idiots," "not funny", "disgusting". Some, however, took the opportunity to look a bit on the TV channel and its program to make fun of. "Hey," one tweeted, "@ the S_kiddies can not help it that the password of @ NBCNews' lousy sitcoms" was ".

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