The Associated Press Twitter account was hacked and a false tweet informing followers of a bombing attempt at the White House was posted on The AP’s behalf. The attack was claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army. Saying President Obama was hurt during the incident, the tweet caused a seven-minute stock price plunge that recovered after The AP reported the hack and confirmed the tweet was bogus. "The @AP Twitt...

North Korea may be on the brink of declaring war, but guerrilla operations have already started in cyber-space. Hacktivists supposedly affiliated with Anonymous seized control of the Twitter and Flickr accounts of the North Korean propaganda news agency and started posting criticism of leader Kim Jong-un. As North Korea has hardly any presence on the Internet, the Twitter and Flickr accounts set up by Urimi...

Bitdefender security researchers recommend all employees to refrain from revealing the name of the company they are working for and minimize data sharing on social networking platforms. This information will do them and their companies more harm than good. And nowhere is this recommendation more urgent than in the United States – the country with both the highest profile hacking targets and the most lax cit...

Anonymous got hacked by Rustle League members that managed to hijack one of the hacktivist group's Twitter accounts. With more than 160,000 followers, Anon_CentralINF was controlled by the anti-Anonymous hacking group for several hours, and it recently became unavailable. “Can't believe you both are fighting against each other instead of sharing powers for more important goals,” users commented. The micro-b...

If you spend a lot of time shopping online, you can now turn to Twitter to place your orders, provided that you have an American Express credit card. Since Monday, the service is available to try for any American Express customer if they pair their credit card with their Twitter handle on the bank’s website. Since all information about the user’s credit card is stored on the bank’s file, there is no risk ab...

Twitter users who changed passwords after last week’s cyber-attack still connect with the old, vulnerable passwords, according to The Register. Apps using the Twitter API, including the company's own, allow access to the service without asking users to enter the new passwords. “A password change performed on the web did not, however, cause Twitter's own apps for iPad (under iOS 5.1.1 on an iPad 1) or iOS (u...

Third party apps that use Twitter accounts for authentication could have accessed private direct messages without users’ knowledge. The flaw in Twitter’s API was discovered by IOActive’s CTO, Cesar Cerrudo and was fixed by Twitter following its report. The bug was discovered during the registration process in which developers select the level of access apps have on user accounts. Features such as “read only...

Cracked applications that refuse to work when installed on devices are sooo last year, a recent incident involving iPhones, iPads and the famous Oxford Dictionary of English reveals. If, up until now, pirate users would only worry about ending up with a non-working application, they should now be concerned with being publicly pointed at as thieves. According to author Jenn Frank, due to a flaw in the digita...

Lindsay Lohan’s Twitter account was allegedly hacked, and a message about Hitler was posted on the platform as if coming from the 26 year-old actress, according to her latest tweet. “My twitter was hacked, please ignore the last tweet,” she said to her followers on the microblogging website. But fans already disliked the strange joke about Hitler, which was linked to a previous post about Hurricane Sandy. “...

Twitter has blocked access to a neo-Nazi account in Germany at the request of the government in the first test of a new censorship policy, according to the BBC. The micro-blogging platform left the tweets of the account visible to the rest of the world. The amendments give Twitter “the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country -- while keeping it available in the rest of the wo...