http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2016-04-25 13:13:34 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the federal body tasked with automotive safety, reports the Verge, adding If you look at NHTSA's Twitter feed right now, you'll find that it's just a non-stop stream of burns aimed at people who admit -- sometimes gleefully -- that they text and drive For example, seeing a tweet that read, I have no problem texting while driving, but I won't text while going down stairs, the NHTSA replied You might not have a problem with the texting drivingbut we do Stay off your phone and justdrive - it's not worth it And seeing a tweet that read I text and drive way too much, they responded, Um, agreed Please realize you're putting yourself and others in danger, and a silly text isn't worth it justdrive The Verge argues For what it's worth, NHTSA is right countless studies have linked texting in the driver's seat with higher accident rates Getting shamed online by a government agency is far harsher than getting shamed by a friend -- but it's still a lot better than getting killed over an email To which the NHTSA responded on Twitter, Thanks for the shoutout, verge justdrive IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604554.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604554.shtml 2016-04-20 15:01:56 - Security Bloggers Network : Location data shared in your Facebook and Twitter posts could be abused by individuals and advertisers alike Yasin Soliman explains how to ensure that you have the proper privacy controls in place http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604226.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604226.shtml 2016-04-14 11:46:03 - Security Bloggers Network : Staying on top of the latest developments and innovation in application security is key The following list of thought leaders The post Top AppSec Gurus on Twitter appeared first on Checkmarx http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603733.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603733.shtml 2016-04-01 21:22:59 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader links to an Associated Press report North Korea has officially announced it is blocking Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and South Korean websites in a move underscoring its concern with the spread of online information The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announcement was posted this week at the country's main mobile service provider, Koryolink, and other places serving Internet users Very few North Koreans have Internet access Typically they can see only a sealed-off, government-sanctioned intranet But foreigners had previously been able to surf the Web with almost no overt restrictions, though most likely with behind-the-scenes monitoring of their Internet activities IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602692.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602692.shtml 2016-03-21 21:27:49 - Hackaday : Got aliens in your attic Squirrels in the skirting board You need a trap, and John Mangan has come up with an interesting way to let you know that you have caught that pesky varmint the IoT Critter Twitter Trap By adding a ball switch, Electric Imp and a couple of batteries to a trap, he was able to set the trap to notify him when it caught something over Twitter To do this, he programmed the Electric Imp to send a message over when a varmint trods on the panel inside the trap, slamming its door shut The whole read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601652.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601652.shtml 2016-03-07 18:11:46 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Anonymous has claimed that Twitter mistakenly shut down several of its activist accounts in a widespread cull of pages belonging to terrorist supporters In an effort to rid the site of an extremist presence, Twitter has recently suspended over 125,000 accounts for 'threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS' However, the international activist group Anonymous is now reporting that among this number were multiple member accounts, which were actively supporting the fight against the Islamic State and helping to seek out terrorist supporters and recruiters online Twitter has typically re-opened the Anonymous accounts within a matter of hours, bombarded with requests by hacktivists and the wider online community IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600389.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600389.shtml 2016-02-29 14:43:36 - SecurityTube.Net : This paper was presented at VB2014 in Seattle, WA, USA In this paper, we examine Twitter in depth, including a study of 500,000,000 tweets from a two-week period to analyse how it is abused Most Twitter abuse takes the form of tweets with links to malicious and spam websites These websites take many forms, including spam websites scam sites involved in compromising more Twitter accounts phishing websites and websites with malware or offering cracked versions of software Many of the malicious tweets are sent from legitimate accounts that have been compromised, creating a range of problems for their owners The scale of the threat is significant Previous research notably ' spam', Grier 2010 indicates that using URL blacklists is ineffective in detecting threats Our research shows otherwise - approximately five per cent of all tweets with links contained malicious and or spam content We also applied graph algorithms to the Twitter data and were able to find various clusters of inter-related websites and accounts We were able to identify specific spam tweet campaigns, as well as groups carrying out these campaigns The data from this analysis leads us to conclude that blacklisting, in conjunction with other analytical tools, is an effective tool for identifying malicious tweets For More Information Please Visit - https wwwvirusbulletincom http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599642.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599642.shtml 2016-02-27 01:05:44 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes with the key claim of a story at The Daily Kos In a truly egregious move yesterday, Twitter suspended the account responsible for WhichHillary, activist GuerrillaDems Twitter also removed WhichHillary from trending status, which is odd, considering the hashtag received more than 450,000 tweets in less than 24 hours Twitter now says the suspension of GuerillaDems was a mistake Although this may just be a coincidence, it isn't the first time Twitter has exerted political control Many users think it is a demonstrable conflict of interest, in light of Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani's Sunday, 2 28 fundraiser with Clinton The Daily Kos itself offers at least a perfunctory caution that it's unclear whether it was intentional removal, or algorithmic coincidence IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599533.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599533.shtml 2016-02-26 20:56:45 - Office of Inadequate Security : Jason Murdock reports The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter profiles that posted links to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599517.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599517.shtml 2016-02-26 20:27:31 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : HughPickenscom writes Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman write in the NYT that with his enormous online platform of six million followers, Donald Trump has used Twitter to badger and humiliate those who have dared cross him during the presidential race, latching on to their vulnerabilities, mocking their physical characteristics, personality quirks and, sometimes, their professional setbacks Trump has made statements that have later been exposed as false or deceptive only after they have ricocheted across the Internet For example, Cheri Jacobus, a Republican political strategist, did not think she had done anything out of the ordinary On a cable television show, she criticized Donald J Trump for skipping a debate in Iowa in late January and described him as a bad debater Trump took to Twitter, repeatedly branding Jacobus as a disappointed job seeker who had begged to work for his campaign and had been rejected We said no and she went hostile, Trump wrote A real dummy Trump's campaign manager told the same story on MSNBC's Morning Joe For days, Trump's followers replied to his posts with demeaning, often sexually charged insults aimed at Jacobus, including several with altered, vulgar photographs of her face IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599516.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599516.shtml 2016-02-26 16:10:29 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : New submitter NeonBible writes with this news from IB Times UK The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter users who posted links to a compromised database stolen from a national police server The users, which include two Anonymous-affiliated accounts, sent out notifications to millions of followers containing a direct link to a huge 178GB-sized trove of sensitive data earlier this month Among the websites targeted by the government security affairs division were CthulhuSec, YourAnonNews, CryptOnymous and also an alleged news organisation called KurdishDailyNewsorg IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599496.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599496.shtml 2016-02-26 01:55:33 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Google plans to follow Microsoft in throwing its legal support behind Apple in its increasingly contentious dispute with the federal government around the iPhone connected with the San Bernardino terror attacks, according to sources At a congressional hearing on Thursday, Microsoft's legal chief, Brad Smith, said that the company plans to file an amicus brief next week in support of Apple's resistance to helping the FBI hack the phone Google will deliver its own supporting brief 'soon,' according to sources familiar with the company IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599421.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599421.shtml 2016-02-25 01:35:28 - CNIS mag : 10 000 comptes Twitter sont potentiellement compromis, nous apprend un billet du blog officiel La faille, rapidement comblée, affectait la procédure de récupération de mot de passe oublié Le nombre d usagers exposés à ce risque ne représente qu une goutte d eau dans l océan de la population twouitérienne mais la taille de ce http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599296.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599296.shtml 2016-02-23 13:54:30 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter says your passwords are safe and the bug's fixed, but you ARE using 2FA and a strong password, right http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599090.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599090.shtml 2016-02-19 14:27:42 - Security Bloggers Network : The bug may have exposed the email addresses and phone numbers associated with user accounts http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598795.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598795.shtml 2016-02-19 02:05:51 - Office of Inadequate Security : Oops It looks like my beloved Twitter had a security issue From a blog post yesterday We recently learned about and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598740.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598740.shtml 2016-02-18 15:51:17 - Risk Assessment Ars Technica : Micro-blabbing site applies fix, claims passwords are safe http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598665.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598665.shtml 2016-02-15 23:46:24 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : blottsie writes Ringo Starr's account was compromised by a hacker operating under the username af, who spoke to the Daily Dot about the breach The hacker says he gained access to an email account associated with Doug Brasch, senior director of digital marketing at Universal Music Group, who managed Starr's Twitter account He simply used an email password reset to gain access IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598368.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598368.shtml 2016-02-15 18:54:34 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes For a man so readily associated with words and certainly for a wordsmith so enamored with technology Twitter seems like something of a natural home for Stephen Fry Over the years he has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers, but last night he closed his account Fry's latest exit from Twitter there have been several over the last few years for numerous reasons came about because of the backlash he received for making a joke at an award ceremony Hosting the BATFAs British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Sunday, he referred to costume designer and award winner and, indeed, friend Jenny Beavan as being 'dressed as a bag lady' 'Offended' Twitter users attacked Fry in their droves, and he fought a valiant battle, before eventually giving up and terminating his account It comes just days after Twitter set up a new Trust Safety Council IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598353.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598353.shtml 2016-02-09 21:06:46 - DEF CON Announcements : DEF CON twitter switch image Time to update your twitter lists and searches - DEF CON on twitter is now defcon You can say goodbye to those unnecessary underscores for good If you use Twitter and you're not following us, this is a good moment to get on board http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597792.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597792.shtml 2016-02-08 12:50:58 - Help Net Security : Since mid-2015, Twitter has suspended over 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts Most of these were related to ISIS We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism an http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597639.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597639.shtml 2016-02-06 16:01:14 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes Having previously battled trolls, Twitter has now turned its attention to terrorists and their supporters The site has closed down more than 125,000 accounts associated with terrorism since the middle of 2015, it announced in a statement Although a full breakdown of figures is not provided, Twitter says most of these accounts were related to ISIS Having increased the size of its account review team, the site has reduced the time it takes to investigate accounts that are reported, and has also started to investigate 'accounts similar to those reported' IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597557.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597557.shtml 2016-02-06 11:30:09 - Security Bloggers Network : Today, Twitter announced that instead of the normal timeline of newest messages on top, they will prioritize messages they think you'll be interested in This angers a lot of people, but my guess it's it's something Twitter has to doLet me give you an http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597549.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597549.shtml 2016-02-03 15:28:05 - Security Bloggers Network : David Bisson wonders if he has made a mistake in his choice of password manager It may have kept his passwords secure, but Dashlane has published his email address to the world http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597263.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597263.shtml 2016-01-29 18:46:30 - Office of Inadequate Security : Alan Erwin reports A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyberattack on TalkTalk has settled his claim for damages http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596907.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596907.shtml 2016-01-19 15:37:05 - Security Bloggers Network : No blood has been spilt, no lives lost but Twitter is down http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595964.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595964.shtml 2016-01-16 00:23:59 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes An American woman named Tamara Fields has sued Twitter in US federal court, saying the social network gave the Islamic State a voice to spread its propaganda Fields's husband died on November 9, when the terrorist organization attacked a police training center in Amman, Jordan The complaint alleges, Without Twitter, the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most-feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible At the end of 2015, Twitter stepped up its efforts or at least its official policies to block such content from its site But the company has been under fire for over a year from citizens and law enforcement officials over the activity of various terrorist groups on its platform Fields's attorneys hope that her husband's death will give her proper standing to challenge Twitter in court IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595744.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595744.shtml 2016-01-13 18:26:39 - TorrentFreak : Photographer Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, claiming that the social network failed to remove infringing copies of her work In a complaint filed at a federal court in California, Reilly demands a permanent injunction against the social network and compensation for the damage she suffered Source TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595576.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595576.shtml 2016-01-08 09:47:10 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes The Investigatory Powers Bill may only be in draft form at the moment, but the UK government has already received criticism for its plans Today, scores of pieces of written evidence, both for and against the proposals, have been published, including input from the Reform Government Surveillance RGS coalition Five key members of the coalition are Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo In their written evidence, the quintet of tech companies express their concerns about the draft bill, seek clarification from the UK government, and issue warnings about the implications of such a bill The evidence document IPB0116 says that any surveillance undertaken by the government need to be 'targeted, lawful, proportionate, necessary, jurisdictionally bounded, and transparent' The coalition notes that many other countries are watching to see what the UK does IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595171.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595171.shtml 2016-01-05 13:58:20 - Security Bloggers Network : The erased Twitter gaffes by politicians, which the sites had resurfaced in the name of government transparency, will relaunch in the coming months http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594840.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594840.shtml 2016-01-04 11:34:37 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Twitter shut down Politwoops, a network of deleted tweets from politicians, this summer with the statement Imagine how nerve-racking terrifying, even tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable No one user is more deserving of that ability than another Indeed, deleting a tweet is an expression of the user's voice To the joy of open-government advocates and with the help of government transparency nonprofits, Twitter says it will work to get Politwoops up and running again Politwoops is an important tool for holding our public officials, including candidates and elected or appointed public officials, accountable for the statements they make, and we're glad that we've been able to reach an agreement with Twitter to bring it back online both in the US and internationally, said Jenn Topper, communications director for The Sunlight Foundation IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594727.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594727.shtml 2015-12-31 13:02:44 - Hackaday : Plaster casts are blank canvases for friends and family to post their get well messages But if it s holiday season, adding blinky LED lights to them is called for When Dr Lucy Rogers hurt her hand, she put a twitter enabled LED Christmas tree on her cast The hardware is plain simple some RGB LEDs, an Arduino, a blue tooth module and a battery The LEDs and wires formed the tree, and all the parts were attached to the plaster cast using Velcro This allowed the electronics to be removed during future X-ray scans The fun part was in read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594590.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594590.shtml 2015-12-22 14:04:22 - Security Bloggers Network : Former pharma king Martin Shkreli's feed was spewing profane, taunting remarks about 700 pills and AIDs Where was the 2FA http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593944.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593944.shtml 2015-12-21 16:47:35 - Security Bloggers Network : There are possibly many lessons that can be learnt by business people from the chequered career of Martin Shkreli, but perhaps one that is not tangled in controversy is the need for better security over social media accounts The post The Internet s Most Hated Man Has His Twitter Hacked appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593835.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593835.shtml 2015-12-21 09:53:33 - Help Net Security : Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles Critical ScreenOS bugs allow undetectable decryption of VPN connections, device hijacking During a recent internal http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593794.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593794.shtml 2015-12-19 01:33:53 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter warns about cyber attacks Earlier this month, social media platform Twitter alerted a number of its users to the fact that their accounts may have been hacked into by something, or someone, known as a state-sponsored actor While a warning of this kind is certainly not unprecedented for some time now, both Facebook and Google have also been contacting any of their users who they think may have been targeted it suggests that attacks of this type are becoming more widespread The post Twitter warns about cyber attacks appeared first on Health Security Solutions http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593693.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593693.shtml 2015-12-18 11:01:51 - SecurityTube.Net : Twitter, ISIL, and Tech Tim Newberry There is a concerted effort by researchers to understand how the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant ISIL is capable of influencing and radicalizing socially vulnerable audiences around the world via digital means These efforts are demonstrated in a limited body of research that are often times rooted in conventional processes, therefore, having limited direct application to today s dynamic, open-source digital environment This environment affords a challenging, yet unique, opportunity to employ open source machine learning techniques guided by social learning and routine activities theory from the criminological field of study This presentation will discuss a human driven, but machine assisted framework for identifying ISIL methods and victims in order to facilitate an effective counter-narrative for engaging the victims prior to influence happening The framework utilizes historically based research designs to develop the frameworks, but machine learning to train classification algorithms utilizing data pulled from the Twitter API for modern application The Scikit-Learn set of tools for Python were used to rapidly prototype tools for data mining and data analysis BIO Timothy Newberry is a former Naval Officer and subject matter expert in digital training design and adversarial use of the internet As a co-founder of White Canvas Group, Tim was selected to create, design, and implement a program for the CIAs Counter Terrorism Center producing measurable results against global terror networks Tim has provided countless hours of subject matter expertise and creative design support to US Special Operations Forces SOF in developing alternative technical solutions for existing mission requirements within SOF Since founding WCG, Tim has built technologies like GridMeNow, a location-based service for enhanced situational awareness, which has since been spun off into its own company Tim has also been a noted speaker at venues such as the Global Information Operations conference in London and the World Wide Information Operations conference in Washington DC Prior to White Canvas Group, Tim was a Submariner for eight years of active duty service while completing various assignments in the Pacific, Iraq and Washington DC areas He is a 2000 graduate from the United States Naval Academy where he earned a BS in Computer Science and graduated with distinction He has an MS in Engineering Management from Catholic University of America, a masters level equivalent in Nuclear Engineering for US Naval Nuclear Power Plant operations, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of New Haven where his focus is on the intersection of new age digital challenges and criminal justice For More Information Please Visit - https wwwdefconorg html defcon-23 dc-23-indexhtml http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593599.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593599.shtml 2015-12-17 12:57:37 - Security Bloggers Network : New teams will be dedicated to the task of battling a deluge of racist and xenophobic hate speech that's risen with Germany's refugee crisis http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593469.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593469.shtml 2015-12-14 23:33:54 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes A month after temporarily blocking social media sites including Facebook and WhatsApp, the Bangladeshi government has now taken steps to take down online chat software Skype and social networking service Twitter The decision came after a supreme court ruling which sentenced two opposition leaders to death, having found them guilty of crimes committed in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan The ruling rejected petitions to review the war criminals' death sentences It divided the country, with many strongly protesting the decision The social media ban is seen as a way to control any attempt at mass mobilization among dissidents IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593126.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593126.shtml 2015-12-14 19:57:27 - Security Bloggers Network : A number of warning recipients are active in the security community, particularly with Tor, but it's not a consistent link for all of them http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593109.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593109.shtml 2015-12-14 18:57:49 - Risk Assessment Ars Technica : Journalists, security researchers, and activists receive Twtter warning e-mail http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593101.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593101.shtml 2015-12-14 15:57:58 - LinuxSecurity.com Latest News : LinuxSecuritycom Over the weekend Twitter warned some users that their accounts may have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers The alert was the first from the social network and brings it in line with Facebook's and Google's efforts to warn users of attacks on user accounts http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593068.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593068.shtml 2015-12-14 15:28:54 - Security Bloggers Network : At least 30 Twitter accounts received a disturbing message from the site late last week, warning that they may have been targeted by government or state-sponsored hackers The post Twitter Warns Users of Possible State-Sponsored Attacks appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593065.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593065.shtml 2015-12-14 15:27:56 - Help Net Security : Twitter has sent out unexpected warning notices to a number of users, informing them that their account might have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers We believe that these actors possibly http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593064.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593064.shtml 2015-12-07 18:15:50 - Security Bloggers Network : Zimmerman apparently posted semi-nude photos of a woman, doxed her contact information and said she sleeps with a dirty Muslim http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592329.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592329.shtml 2015-12-07 17:32:32 - Security Bloggers Network : Leeds United-loving football fans appear to have hacked the Twitter account of WWE legend Jim Ross, and announced his death Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592321.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592321.shtml 2015-11-18 14:35:47 - Security Bloggers Network : A self-styled security researcher has created a tool called Twittor that uses Twitter Direct Messages as a botnet command-and-control server http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590445.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590445.shtml 2015-11-13 16:37:54 - Security Bloggers Network : Although it's far from always possible to determine the perpetrators of a denial-of-service attack and bring them to justice, there are plenty of people who have been put behind bars because of this modern-day crime The post Jail for British DDoS atta http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590008.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590008.shtml 2015-11-10 10:19:29 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant authentifié peut utiliser Drupal Twitter, afin de poster un message sur le fil d'un autre utilisateur http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589611.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589611.shtml 2015-11-09 15:00:40 - Security Bloggers Network : The hacking group has launched a high-profile attack against thousands of innocent Twitter users to spread propaganda http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589521.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589521.shtml 2015-11-08 17:42:55 - Office of Inadequate Security : In today s headlines ISIS Supporter Hacks 54,000 Twitter Accounts and Posts Details of Heads of the CIA and FBI The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589424.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589424.shtml 2015-10-27 14:19:30 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut utiliser une vulnérabilité de WordPress JM Twitter Cards, afin d'obtenir des informations sensibles http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588103.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588103.shtml 2015-10-26 17:05:34 - Security Bloggers Network : Amazon's decision to sue over 1000 fake reviewers has prompted restaurateurs to lobby TripAdvisor to better authenticate its contributed hotel and eatery reports http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587988.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587988.shtml 2015-10-23 19:44:28 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter poll Over the course of the next few days, millions of tweeters will be given the option to create and respond to public polls in a few short steps The wildly popular social network announced its plans to roll out the feature in a blog post Wednesday and said the anonymized voting system would allow users to weigh in on the topics that matter most to them While we are sure to see a fair amount of pop culture-centric polls as a result of the new function, we are also likely to see governments putting it to work as a means of directly connecting with their citizens In Austin, Texas, a city well-known for its abundant use of networking sites, news of the polling feature hadn t yet made its way to city spokesperson Alicia Dean Though Dean was not aware of the details of the most recent Twitter feature, she said it could end up as part of the city s larger social media program if it proves to offer a real value to the city s more than 60,000 followers Our whole thing here is shortening the distance between our citizens and their government, and access to city services, she said We re always looking for new tools and techniques that can actually help us shorten that distance Twitter is something that is very popular for us, so we re always interested in looking at new features they are rolling out and seeing if it s a fit for us The growing technology scene and the presence of Google Fiber makes Austin an ideal proving ground for many new facets of widely used networking platforms But at the end of the day, the new features have to show they are bringing something to the table before the city will buy in The thing that is important for us is that we recognize that once you start something, you have to be able to manage it effectively You can t start a conversation and then not be there, Dean said For us, because we do so much with social media, we want to be sure that if we were to use that particular feature, that we were able to keep our level of engagement either the same or improve it According to the spokesperson, the city actively gathers input from residents through a variety of other sources From the perspective of the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany in New York state, Twitter s latest addition is a mixed bag when it comes to exactly what it will offer government agencies Program Director Meghan Cook said the ability to create a poll about pressing issues within the public sector will mean another way to ask the public for input, but she warned that input may not be totally valid when it comes to translating that information into policy decisions I think it will go along the lines of what Twitter already does it gathers feedback from those who subscribed to be a follower of an agency, Cook said So the population is confined to those who are already paying attention to that agency and what they re doing It s the same population, just another channel, a faster channel to assess a very quick question As to whether the ability to quickly poll citizens will be an immediately valuable tool for agencies, Cook is not completely convinced She advocates that agencies compare results against all of the input they are receiving for a more global view of each issue When an agency is already invested in using Twitter, they re understanding the cross-section of people that they re getting information from, she said I don t see it as a risk, but I don t see it as a benefit yet either, because it allows less information from the citizens and provides more of an aggregate, which no one has really determined is representative http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587789.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587789.shtml 2015-10-12 06:34:52 - Security Bloggers Network : We are now in the second week of National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM A campaign sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security DHS in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, NCSAM is designed to emphasize our shared responsibility in strengthening the security postures of our Read More The post How to Stay Safe Online Twitter Tips from the Security Pros appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586380.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586380.shtml 2015-10-09 13:39:51 - Darknet The Darkside : http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586216.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586216.shtml 2015-10-05 04:01:31 - Security Bloggers Network : TL DR ----- Last week I wrote about Markov Chains in a post titled, Using Python to Sound Like a Wine Snob Yesterday morning, while laying in bed, I thought it would be a fun exercise to take this idea further How about creating a Python script that automatically generates, and posts, humorous tweets in the voice of Yoda, combined with the wisdom of Zen masters I created and tested the code, and thus the creation of the Yoda parody twitter handle, YodaUncut A day later I felt it would be valuable to write a blog post sharing what I coded This code is like Burger King, have it your way, but don't go crazy Please, don't abuse this with Twitter see Twitter's Terms of Service I'm sharing this as educational material that hopefully inspires some people to pursue, or continue learning, coding or at least provide some answers for anyone who's stuck with their existing code, searching the web for some answers else, for your amusement Be original ----------- In my example I blend quotes from Yoda and various Zen masters If you go through this exercise, pick something different For example, how about combining quotes from Warren Buffett and Darth Vader, or 50 Shades of Grey and Mother Teresa Criteria -------- Here's the initial criteria I came up with 1 Purpose Generate amusing Yoda'esque tweets using Markcov Chains 2 The tweets would blend the wisdom of Yoda with the koans of various Zen masters 3 The generated tweets would need to be 140 characters, or less, in length 4 Create a random latitude and longitude in North America for Yoda's geolocation 5 Post the tweet on Twitter with Yoda's geolocation Requirements ------------ In order for the Python script to work, I used the following third party libraries oauthlib 103 requests 270 requests-oauthlib 050 The above libraries were installed with ----- easy_install pip Searching for pip Best match pip 608 Adding pip 608 to easy-installpth file Installing pip script to tmp test bin Installing pip34 script to tmp test bin Installing pip3 script to tmp test bin Using tmp test lib python27 site-packages Processing dependencies for pip Finished processing dependencies for pip pip install requests oauthlib requests-oauthlib Collecting requests Using cached requests-270-py2py3-none-anywhl Collecting oauthlib Using cached oauthlib-103targz Collecting requests-oauthlib Using cached requests_oauthlib-050-py2py3-none-anywhl Installing collected packages requests-oauthlib, oauthlib, requests Running setuppy install for oauthlib Successfully installed oauthlib-103 requests-270 requests-oauthlib-050 ----- The code was written for, and tested with, Python version 279 It hasn't been tested in with Python 3 ----- python --version Python 279 ----- Generate Twitter API and token keys secrets ------------------------------------------- You will need to get your Twitter API and token keys secrets If you haven't already 1 Go to https appstwittercom 2 Create a new app 3 Once created, scroll down to Application Settings and click on manage keys and access tokens 4 Copy you Consumer Key API Key and Consumer Secret API Secret 5 Scroll down to Token Actions and click on Create my access token 6 Copy your Access Token and Access Token Secret Save your keys secrets Don't share them Don't upload them to your git repository For the sake of this example, put them in a file called keystxt The syntax of keystxt will look like the following ----- cat keystxt client_key client_secret token token_secret ----- Imports ------- Starting our Python code with the imports We want urllib for proper encoding of our tweets We import choice from random so that we can randomly choose text as part of the Markcov Chain We also want to import randint from random for generating some random numbers for geolocation latitude and longitude The two remaining imports require third party libraries to first be installed To post our tweet over HTTPS to Twitter's API, we'll need requests We also need OAuth1 from requests_oauthlib for authentication with Twitter Let's start with the Python code Local libraries import urllib from random import choice , randint Third party libraries import requests from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1 Taking about geolocation --------------------------- In order for the latitude and longitude geolocation to show up in the tweets, geolocation needs to be enabled for the Twitter account To enable geolocation sharing 1 Go to your Twitter account settings 2 On the left side, click on Security and privacy 3 Scroll down to Privacy Tweet location and check Add a location to my Tweets 4 Click on Save changes Preparing the environment ------------------------- Adjust the following filenames to whatever you're using In my example, I have a file that has Yoda quotes, and a second file that has various Zen master quotes Quotes filenames quote_filename1 'yoda_quotestxt' quote_filename2 'zen_quotestxt' The format of both quote files looks something like the following Each quote is on a new line For example ----- tail -n 25 yoda_quotestxt head -n 5 size matters not look at me judge me by my size do you so certain are you always with you it cannot be done hear you nothing that I say strong am I with the Force, but not that strong twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall that is the way of things the way of the Force that is why you fail the boy you trained, gone he is, consumed by Darth Vader tail -n 25 zen_quotestxt head -n 5 no yesterday, no tomorrow, and no today nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise one falling leaf is not just one leaf it means the whole autumn the Force is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine the Force is selling water by the river ----- Twiter's API base URL --------------------- Here we define the base URL for Twitter's API endpoints Base URL for Twitter calls base_twitter_url https apitwittercom 11 Create a function to get your Twitter API and token keys secrets from keystxt --------------------------------------------------------------------- def get_twitter_credentials This function reads in the Twitter credentials and organizes them in a dictionary return Return the twitter credentials as a dict f open 'keystxt' , 'rb' raw_credentials f readlines f close credentials for credential in raw_credentials key credential split ' ' 0 value credential split ' ' 1 strip ' n ' credentials key value return credentials Reading in the quotes --------------------- We also need a function that will read in the quotes from our quotes files def get_quotes filename This function read the quotes in from a file param filename The filename of the file that contains the quotes return A string with the quotes concatenated together Newlines are removed f open filename , 'rb' quotes f readlines f close quotes_list for quote in quotes quotes_list append quote strip ' n ' return join quotes_list Create a dictionary for use with the Markcov Chain -------------------------------------------------- This is the function used last week in Using Python to Sound Like a Wine Snob def create_markcov_dict original_text This function takes the quotes and creates a dictionary with the words in Markcov chunks param original_text The plaintext to chunck up return Return the dictionary with Markcov chunks original_text original_text split_text original_text split markcov_dict for i in xrange len split_text - 2 key_name split_text i , split_text i 1 key_value split_text i 2 if key_name in markcov_dict markcov_dict key_name append key_value else markcov_dict key_name key_value return markcov_dict Generating the tweet, 140 characters, or less, using the Markov Chain --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a modified version of the function used from last week's wine snob example def create_markcov_tweet markcov_dict This function creates the Tweet using the Markov Chain param markcov_dict The dictionary with the text in Markcov chunks return Return the tweet Pick a random starting point selected_words_tuple choice markcov_dict keys markcov_tweet selected_words_tuple 0 capitalize , selected_words_tuple 1 Generate the Markcov text, ending the Markcov text when we create a key that doesn't exist while selected_words_tuple in markcov_dict next_word choice markcov_dict selected_words_tuple if len join markcov_tweet next_word 140 if markcov_tweet - 1 endswith '' markcov_tweet append next_word capitalize else markcov_tweet append next_word selected_words_tuple selected_words_tuple 1 , next_word else tweet join markcov_tweet strip if tweet endswith , tweet tweet rstrip ',' '' elif not tweet endswith or tweet endswith or tweet endswith or tweet endswith or tweet endswith tweet tweet '' return tweet Create a random latitude and longitude in North America ------------------------------------------------------- This is dirty, but works fine our purpose def get_geolocation This function generates a random latitude and longitude, somwhere in Northern America return Returns a dict with the lat and long latitude 07d format randint 28 , 69 , randint 0 , 999999 longitude 07d format randint - 128 , - 64 , randint 0 , 999999 return 'lat' latitude , 'long' longitude Create function to post our tweet via HTTPS using Twitter's API --------------------------------------------------------------- This is how we'll upload our tweet to Twitter def post_tweet markcov_tweet This function posts the tweet to Twitter param markcov_tweet The text to tweet return Return the response from requestspost Setup authentication credentials get_twitter_credentials client_key credentials 'client_key' client_secret credentials 'client_secret' token credentials 'token' token_secret credentials 'token_secret' oauth OAuth1 client_key , client_secret , token , token_secret Get latitude and longitude for the tweet coordinates get_geolocation Make the URL api_url statuses updatejson format base_twitter_url api_url status format urllib quote markcov_tweet api_url lat long format coordinates 'lat' , coordinates 'long' api_url display_coordinates true tweet response requests post api_url , auth oauth return response Tying it all together --------------------- Now that we have everything in place, let's take this out for a test drive We're going to generate a tweet and post it to Twitter We begin by reading in, and concatenating, all of the quotes from both quote files quotes get_quotes quote_filename1 get_quotes quote_filename2 For the sake of this example, let's do a quick test to see the first 1000 characters loaded print quotes 0 1000 I cannot teach him the boy has no patience I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor or should I call you Darth Sidious Master Obi-Wan, not victory the shroud of the dark side has fallen begun, the Clone War has Qui-Gon's defiance I sense in you need that you do not agree with you, the Council does your apprentice young Skywalker will be Yoda I am, fight I will a labyrinth of evil, this war has become a trial of being old is this remembering which thing one has said into which young ears and well you should not for my ally is the Force and a powerful ally it is life creates it, makes it grow its energy surrounds us and binds us luminous beings are we, not this crude matter you must feel the Force around you here, between you, me, the tree, the rock everywhere even between the land and the ship around the survivors, a perimeter create at an end your rule is and not short enough it was awww, cannot get your ship outeh-heheheh careful you must be We'll feed text into our Markcov dictionary creation function ------------------------------------------------------------- markcov_dict create_markcov_dict quotes Let's also see how many chunks of text we have in our newly created dictionary as a quick test print len markcov_dict 1595 Generate the tweet ------------------ We'll generate the tweet with our Markcov function and quotes markcov_tweet create_markcov_tweet markcov_dict Let's see what we'll be tweeting and the number of characters of the tweet print Tweet format len markcov_tweet , markcov_tweet Tweet 140 Of evil, this war has become A trial of being old is this remembering which thing one has said into which young ears And well you should Ready aim FIRE ----------------------- Finally, let's post the tweet and get a status of whether or not the tweet was posted successfully response post_tweet markcov_tweet if response status_code 200 print Tweet posted successfully else print - Tweet post failed Tweet posted successfully Back to this world --------------------- The tweet has now been posted on Twitter You can also schedule your script to run via cron at random times throughout the day For example, let's say we want to post three tweets a day at random times You can setup a cron entry like the following ----- SHELL bin bash m h d m w -- minute - hour - day of the month - month - day of the week 0-6, Sun-Sat 0 8 bin sleep usr bin expr RANDOM pourcents 28800 python myscriptpy ----- I hope you found this useful Please share suggestions, improvements, and any additional features you've created to enhance the code IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585636.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585636.shtml 2015-10-05 03:26:06 - Zen One : TL DR ----- Last week I wrote about Markov Chains in a post titled, Using Python to Sound Like a Wine Snob Yesterday morning, while laying in bed, I thought it would be a fun exercise to take this idea further How about creating a Python script that automatically generates, and posts, humorous tweets in the voice of Yoda, combined with the wisdom of Zen masters I created and tested the code, and thus the creation of the Yoda parody twitter handle, YodaUncut A day later I felt it would be valuable to write a blog post sharing what I coded This code is like Burger King, have it your way, but don't go crazy Please, don't abuse this with Twitter see Twitter's Terms of Service I'm sharing this as educational material that hopefully inspires some people to pursue, or continue learning, coding or at least provide some answers for anyone who's stuck with their existing code, searching the web for some answers else, for your amusement Be original ----------- In my example I blend quotes from Yoda and various Zen masters If you go through this exercise, pick something different For example, how about combining quotes from Warren Buffett and Darth Vader, or 50 Shades of Grey and Mother Teresa Criteria -------- Here's the initial criteria I came up with 1 Purpose Generate amusing Yoda'esque tweets using Markcov Chains 2 The tweets would blend the wisdom of Yoda with the koans of various Zen masters 3 The generated tweets would need to be 140 characters, or less, in length 4 Create a random latitude and longitude in North America for Yoda's geolocation 5 Post the tweet on Twitter with Yoda's geolocation Requirements ------------ In order for the Python script to work, I used the following third party libraries oauthlib 103 requests 270 requests-oauthlib 050 The above libraries were installed with ----- easy_install pip Searching for pip Best match pip 608 Adding pip 608 to easy-installpth file Installing pip script to tmp test bin Installing pip34 script to tmp test bin Installing pip3 script to tmp test bin Using tmp test lib python27 site-packages Processing dependencies for pip Finished processing dependencies for pip pip install requests oauthlib requests-oauthlib Collecting requests Using cached requests-270-py2py3-none-anywhl Collecting oauthlib Using cached oauthlib-103targz Collecting requests-oauthlib Using cached requests_oauthlib-050-py2py3-none-anywhl Installing collected packages requests-oauthlib, oauthlib, requests Running setuppy install for oauthlib Successfully installed oauthlib-103 requests-270 requests-oauthlib-050 ----- The code was written for, and tested with, Python version 279 It hasn't been tested in with Python 3 ----- python --version Python 279 ----- Generate Twitter API and token keys secrets ------------------------------------------- You will need to get your Twitter API and token keys secrets If you haven't already 1 Go to https appstwittercom 2 Create a new app 3 Once created, scroll down to Application Settings and click on manage keys and access tokens 4 Copy you Consumer Key API Key and Consumer Secret API Secret 5 Scroll down to Token Actions and click on Create my access token 6 Copy your Access Token and Access Token Secret Save your keys secrets Don't share them Don't upload them to your git repository For the sake of this example, put them in a file called keystxt The syntax of keystxt will look like the following ----- cat keystxt client_key client_secret token token_secret ----- Imports ------- Starting our Python code with the imports We want urllib for proper encoding of our tweets We import choice from random so that we can randomly choose text as part of the Markcov Chain We also want to import randint from random for generating some random numbers for geolocation latitude and longitude The two remaining imports require third party libraries to first be installed To post our tweet over HTTPS to Twitter's API, we'll need requests We also need OAuth1 from requests_oauthlib for authentication with Twitter Let's start with the Python code Local libraries import urllib from random import choice , randint Third party libraries import requests from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1 Taking about geolocation --------------------------- In order for the latitude and longitude geolocation to show up in the tweets, geolocation needs to be enabled for the Twitter account To enable geolocation sharing 1 Go to your Twitter account settings 2 On the left side, click on Security and privacy 3 Scroll down to Privacy Tweet location and check Add a location to my Tweets 4 Click on Save changes Preparing the environment ------------------------- Adjust the following filenames to whatever you're using In my example, I have a file that has Yoda quotes, and a second file that has various Zen master quotes Quotes filenames quote_filename1 'yoda_quotestxt' quote_filename2 'zen_quotestxt' The format of both quote files looks something like the following Each quote is on a new line For example ----- tail -n 25 yoda_quotestxt head -n 5 size matters not look at me judge me by my size do you so certain are you always with you it cannot be done hear you nothing that I say strong am I with the Force, but not that strong twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall that is the way of things the way of the Force that is why you fail the boy you trained, gone he is, consumed by Darth Vader tail -n 25 zen_quotestxt head -n 5 no yesterday, no tomorrow, and no today nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise one falling leaf is not just one leaf it means the whole autumn the Force is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine the Force is selling water by the river ----- Twiter's API base URL --------------------- Here we define the base URL for Twitter's API endpoints Base URL for Twitter calls base_twitter_url https apitwittercom 11 Create a function to get your Twitter API and token keys secrets from keystxt --------------------------------------------------------------------- def get_twitter_credentials This function reads in the Twitter credentials and organizes them in a dictionary return Return the twitter credentials as a dict f open 'keystxt' , 'rb' raw_credentials f readlines f close credentials for credential in raw_credentials key credential split ' ' 0 value credential split ' ' 1 strip ' n ' credentials key value return credentials Reading in the quotes --------------------- We also need a function that will read in the quotes from our quotes files def get_quotes filename This function read the quotes in from a file param filename The filename of the file that contains the quotes return A string with the quotes concatenated together Newlines are removed f open filename , 'rb' quotes f readlines f close quotes_list for quote in quotes quotes_list append quote strip ' n ' return join quotes_list Create a dictionary for use with the Markcov Chain -------------------------------------------------- This is the function used last week in Using Python to Sound Like a Wine Snob def create_markcov_dict original_text This function takes the quotes and creates a dictionary with the words in Markcov chunks param original_text The plaintext to chunck up return Return the dictionary with Markcov chunks original_text original_text split_text original_text split markcov_dict for i in xrange len split_text - 2 key_name split_text i , split_text i 1 key_value split_text i 2 if key_name in markcov_dict markcov_dict key_name append key_value else markcov_dict key_name key_value return markcov_dict Generating the tweet, 140 characters, or less, using the Markov Chain --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a modified version of the function used from last week's wine snob example def create_markcov_tweet markcov_dict This function creates the Tweet using the Markov Chain param markcov_dict The dictionary with the text in Markcov chunks return Return the tweet Pick a random starting point selected_words_tuple choice markcov_dict keys markcov_tweet selected_words_tuple 0 capitalize , selected_words_tuple 1 Generate the Markcov text, ending the Markcov text when we create a key that doesn't exist while selected_words_tuple in markcov_dict next_word choice markcov_dict selected_words_tuple if len join markcov_tweet next_word 140 if markcov_tweet - 1 endswith '' markcov_tweet append next_word capitalize else markcov_tweet append next_word selected_words_tuple selected_words_tuple 1 , next_word else tweet join markcov_tweet strip if tweet endswith , tweet tweet rstrip ',' '' elif not tweet endswith or tweet endswith or tweet endswith or tweet endswith or tweet endswith tweet tweet '' return tweet Create a random latitude and longitude in North America ------------------------------------------------------- This is dirty, but works fine our purpose def get_geolocation This function generates a random latitude and longitude, somwhere in Northern America return Returns a dict with the lat and long latitude 07d format randint 28 , 69 , randint 0 , 999999 longitude 07d format randint - 128 , - 64 , randint 0 , 999999 return 'lat' latitude , 'long' longitude Create function to post our tweet via HTTPS using Twitter's API --------------------------------------------------------------- This is how we'll upload our tweet to Twitter def post_tweet markcov_tweet This function posts the tweet to Twitter param markcov_tweet The text to tweet return Return the response from requestspost Setup authentication credentials get_twitter_credentials client_key credentials 'client_key' client_secret credentials 'client_secret' token credentials 'token' token_secret credentials 'token_secret' oauth OAuth1 client_key , client_secret , token , token_secret Get latitude and longitude for the tweet coordinates get_geolocation Make the URL api_url statuses updatejson format base_twitter_url api_url status format urllib quote markcov_tweet api_url lat long format coordinates 'lat' , coordinates 'long' api_url display_coordinates true tweet response requests post api_url , auth oauth return response Tying it all together --------------------- Now that we have everything in place, let's take this out for a test drive We're going to generate a tweet and post it to Twitter We begin by reading in, and concatenating, all of the quotes from both quote files quotes get_quotes quote_filename1 get_quotes quote_filename2 For the sake of this example, let's do a quick test to see the first 1000 characters loaded print quotes 0 1000 I cannot teach him the boy has no patience I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor or should I call you Darth Sidious Master Obi-Wan, not victory the shroud of the dark side has fallen begun, the Clone War has Qui-Gon's defiance I sense in you need that you do not agree with you, the Council does your apprentice young Skywalker will be Yoda I am, fight I will a labyrinth of evil, this war has become a trial of being old is this remembering which thing one has said into which young ears and well you should not for my ally is the Force and a powerful ally it is life creates it, makes it grow its energy surrounds us and binds us luminous beings are we, not this crude matter you must feel the Force around you here, between you, me, the tree, the rock everywhere even between the land and the ship around the survivors, a perimeter create at an end your rule is and not short enough it was awww, cannot get your ship outeh-heheheh careful you must be We'll feed text into our Markcov dictionary creation function ------------------------------------------------------------- markcov_dict create_markcov_dict quotes Let's also see how many chunks of text we have in our newly created dictionary as a quick test print len markcov_dict 1595 Generate the tweet ------------------ We'll generate the tweet with our Markcov function and quotes markcov_tweet create_markcov_tweet markcov_dict Let's see what we'll be tweeting and the number of characters of the tweet print Tweet format len markcov_tweet , markcov_tweet Tweet 140 Of evil, this war has become A trial of being old is this remembering which thing one has said into which young ears And well you should Ready aim FIRE ----------------------- Finally, let's post the tweet and get a status of whether or not the tweet was posted successfully response post_tweet markcov_tweet if response status_code 200 print Tweet posted successfully else print - Tweet post failed Tweet posted successfully Back to this world --------------------- The tweet has now been posted on Twitter You can also schedule your script to run via cron at random times throughout the day For example, let's say we want to post three tweets a day at random times You can setup a cron entry like the following ----- SHELL bin bash m h d m w -- minute - hour - day of the month - month - day of the week 0-6, Sun-Sat 0 8 bin sleep usr bin expr RANDOM pourcents 28800 python myscriptpy ----- I hope you found this useful Please share suggestions, improvements, and any additional features you've created to enhance the code IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585635.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585635.shtml 2015-10-03 14:41:15 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut provoquer un Cross Site Scripting de WordPress Facebook, Twitter Google Social Widgets, afin d'exécuter du code JavaScript dans le contexte du site web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585570.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585570.shtml 2015-09-30 19:02:50 - Security Bloggers Network : Edward Snowden signs up for Twitter, promises cat pics and asks about border control on Mars http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585235.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585235.shtml 2015-09-30 04:06:19 - Security Bloggers Network : NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has joined Twitter And he is being very picky over who he chooses to follow http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585119.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585119.shtml 2015-09-29 21:19:54 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : wiredmikey writes Edward Snowden joined Twitter Tuesday, picking up more than a quarter of a million followers on the social network in just over two hours Snowden followed a single Twitter account the US National Security Agency, from which he stole electronic documents revealing the agency's secret surveillance programs Can you hear me now he asked in his first tweet, which was quickly resent by Twitter users tens of thousands of times In his second, Snowden noted the recent news about the planet Mars and then quipped about the difficulty he had finding asylum after the US government fingered him as the source of the NSA leaks And now we have water on Mars he wrote Do you think they check passports at the border Asking for a friend IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585103.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585103.shtml 2015-09-16 04:26:18 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : JustAnotherOldGuy writes Twittter is facing a new possible class action suit that accuses the company of violating user privacy The lawsuit states that the company has been systematically intercepting, reading, and altering direct messages, most likely a reference to Twitter's long-standing practice of automatically shortening and redirecting any in-message links The practice could be used to monitor or redirect any URLs included in a direct message, although it's generally seen as a benign extension of the company's broader link-shortening systems In a statement to USA Today, Twitter, to nobody's surprise, insisted that the allegations are meritless IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583649.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583649.shtml 2015-09-08 13:35:50 - Security Bloggers Network : Is Joaquín Guzmán, aka 'El Chapo', really in Costa Rica His son's Twitter seems to say so, but should we take that at face value http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582673.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582673.shtml 2015-09-07 20:03:39 - Security Bloggers Network : Businesses - be on the lookout for copycat social media accounts which may be attempting to lead your customers astray Read more in my article on the We LIve Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582637.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582637.shtml 2015-09-06 15:38:50 - Security Bloggers Network : I engage with the Stack OverflowExchange community quite a bit and was super-happy treycausey made the Stack Overflow rstats bot StackOverflowR since I m also on Twitter alot mostly hanging out in rstats these days However, rstats questions exist in other Stack watering holes, like the Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange Cross Validated and the fledgling Data http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582551.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582551.shtml 2015-09-02 22:27:17 - TorrentFreak : Twitter has suspended the accounts of two popular torrent and linking sites in response to dubious takedown notices The accounts in question didn't link to any infringing material on Twitter, but were called out because their websites allow people to download pirated movies Source TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582235.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582235.shtml 2015-08-28 22:35:34 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter is an amazing wealth of ideas, opinions, and other resources But with well over 300 users active on a The post 15 DevOps and Security Experts You Should Be Following on Twitter appeared first on Checkmarx http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581790.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581790.shtml 2015-08-27 22:18:21 - Security Bloggers Network : Social media users unwillingly witnessed video of the murders of two television journalists yesterday, due to a default feature on Facebook and Twitter that plays videos automatically Here's how to turn autoplay off http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581656.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581656.shtml 2015-08-26 13:07:53 - Security Bloggers Network : The US site was the first to go, and now 30 countries will no longer be able to track their politicians flip-flopping via deleted tweets http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581419.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581419.shtml 2015-08-24 18:16:33 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut provoquer un Cross Site Scripting de WordPress nextend-twitter-connect, afin d'exécuter du code JavaScript dans le contexte du site web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581178.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581178.shtml 2015-08-24 16:17:03 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Politwoops is was a site that monitored the Twitter feeds of politicians and posted any tweets that those politicians later deleted On May 15, Twitter suspended API access for the US version of Politwoops, and now they've blocked access to the versions of Politwoops running in 30 other countries Twitter has also blocked access for similar site Diplotwoops, which focused on deleted tweets from diplomats and embassies Twitter said, 'Imagine how nerve-racking terrifying, even tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable No one user is more deserving of that ability than another Indeed, deleting a tweet is an expression of the user's voice Arjan El Fassed, director of the Open State Foundation, which developed Politwoops, disagrees What politicians say in public should be available to anyone This is not about typos but it is a unique insight on how messages from elected politicians can change without notice IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581157.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581157.shtml 2015-08-24 14:46:27 - Office of Inadequate Security : If your business has a Twitter account, do those responsible for it know how to respond to tweets informing them of a data http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581134.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581134.shtml 2015-08-22 07:09:52 - Hackaday : Dogs are remarkable creatures Anybody who has lived with one will know that they are very vocal beasts, with barks that range from noting the presence of a squirrel in the yard to the warning whine that says I am about to pee on your shoes if you don t take me outside Henry Conklin decided to computerize the analysis of these noises, putting his dog Oliver Twitch on Twitter so he could hear what he was saying while he was at work Henry that is Oliver stays at home He did this using a Raspberry Pi, which is set to read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581033.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581033.shtml 2015-08-18 10:29:30 - TorrentFreak : The MPAA has dropped its request for a preliminary injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking or offering services to MovieTube The decision comes a few days after prominent tech firms including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Yahoo branded the request as a broad censorship attempt Source TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580529.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580529.shtml 2015-08-11 11:56:13 - TorrentFreak : A broad coalition of global tech firms including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Yahoo are protesting a broad injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to or offering services to MovieTube The preliminary injunction requested by the MPAA resurrects parts of the controversial SOPA bill, the tech giants warn Source TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and the best VPN services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579819.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579819.shtml 2015-08-10 21:51:03 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Facebook, Google, and Twitter are teaming up with the UK's Internet Watch Foundation IWF to share hash lists of blocked indecent images The move is intended to ensure that a picture pulled from one site can't show up again elsewhere The BBC reports Online security specialists welcomed the move as a positive step, but said it would not block content on the 'darknet' a network with restricted access where abusers often posted images IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579773.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579773.shtml 2015-08-10 16:22:59 - Security Bloggers Network : Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in a bid to remove potentially millions of child sexual abuse imagery from the web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579739.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579739.shtml 2015-07-29 16:26:24 - TorrentFreak : Award-winning photographer Kristin Pierson has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, claiming that the social network failed to remove one of her photos In a complaint filed at a federal court in California, Pierson demands a restraining order and compensation for the damage she suffered Source TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and the best VPN services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578748.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578748.shtml 2015-07-29 15:50:58 - Security Bloggers Network : FireEye says a new virulent strain of malware buries itself in network traffic to avoid detection http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578743.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578743.shtml 2015-07-29 15:09:09 - Office of Inadequate Security : Jeremy Kirk reports A group of suspected Russian hackers are using Twitter in a clever way to mask their data-stealing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578722.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578722.shtml 2015-07-27 15:03:14 - Security Bloggers Network : Ripping off other people's stuff, even jokes, is no laughing matter http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578460.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578460.shtml 2015-07-26 14:40:26 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes at Beta News Can a joke be copyrighted Twitter seems to think so As spotted by Twitter account Plagiarism is Bad a number of tweets that repeat a particular joke are being hidden from view The tweets have not been deleted as such, but their text has been replaced with a link to Twitter's Copyright and DMCA policy Quality of the joke itself aside -- no accounting for taste -- this seems a strange move for a site and service which is largely based around verbatim retransmission of other people's low-character-count declarations, recipes, questions, and Yes, jokes IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578394.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578394.shtml 2015-07-20 18:15:03 - Office of Inadequate Security : Sam Matthew and Lydia Willgress report Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been accused of breaching patient confidentiality http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577699.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577699.shtml 2015-07-20 00:48:46 - Security Bloggers Network : Fraudsters who posted a fake news story didn't even bother to spellcheck the name of Twitter's former CEO, but it still spiked stock 85pourcents http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577608.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577608.shtml 2015-07-16 16:22:35 - Security Bloggers Network : Strictly speaking, you couldn't tell who he was, because the pic showed the top of his head but you could see a suit and a pink shirt http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577335.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577335.shtml 2015-07-12 08:48:02 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : After complaints from UK charity Epilepsy Action, Twitter pulled afer less than a day two ads that the group said might cause epileptic seizures The in-house ads, in the 6-second format of Twitter-owned Vine, consisted of flashing video which the Epilepsy Action said was dangerous, as it could potentially produce seizures in people who have photo-sensitive epilepsy IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576803.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576803.shtml 2015-07-08 22:08:43 - Office of Inadequate Security : Lucian Constantin reports The hackers that targeted Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft developers two years ago have http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576508.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576508.shtml 2015-07-07 22:25:20 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : dkatana writes You may call Jun an ancient town it was founded by Romans 2,200 years ago But Jun's mayor is known worldwide for using the latest technology to run the city Back in 1999, when he was deputy mayor, the town declared internet a basic universal right for its citizens And now political parties run virtual campaigns without printing posters But the most impressive accomplishment of Jun's mayor is running the entire town administration and public services using Twitter He has more followers 350 k than the mayor of NY A third of the 3,800 residents have Twitter accounts, and they use the platform to interact with the city administration at all levels IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576413.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576413.shtml 2015-06-30 16:45:36 - Help Net Security : A little over 18,000 Twitter users looking for a way to get their accounts verified have been duped by a single fake account promising to provide the service into visiting a phishing page How many http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575872.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575872.shtml 2015-06-28 23:33:22 - SecTechno : http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575697.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575697.shtml 2015-06-22 18:15:20 - Computer Security News : Hackers took over Katie Hopkins' Twitter account this morning making obscene sexual references and claiming to have a sex tape which they will publish Katie Hopkins' years of trolling and tormenting have finally caught up with her as her Twitter account has been hacked With her profile pic displaying more double chins than a Sumo grand final and her handle changed to jiggly jaws katie either hackers have taken hold or she's completely taken leave of her senses http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574977.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574977.shtml 2015-06-22 16:08:17 - Security Bloggers Network : The controversial Katie Hopkins had her Twitter account hacked by someone threatening to release a bogus sex tape http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574953.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574953.shtml 2015-06-22 15:32:27 - Security Bloggers Network : Controversial UK television personality Katie Hopkins has her Twitter hacked Hacker attempts to post even more outrageous things than normal from it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574944.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574944.shtml 2015-06-21 16:20:43 - Computer Security News : Controversial TV personality Katie Hopkins has had her Twitter account hacked with tweets promising a link to a sex tape The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant is well known for tweeting offensive comments but seems to have fallen victim to someone preying on her own account http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574836.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574836.shtml 2015-06-19 09:20:25 - Help Net Security : Our digital lives are leaving data trails through social networking sites, email providers, Internet service providers, and mobile apps But which companies fight the hardest to protect their customer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574630.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574630.shtml 2015-06-15 03:37:40 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : jfruh writes Ali Shukri Amin, a 17-year-old from Virginia, has pleaded guilty to charges that he aided ISIS by giving the group advice about using bitcoin An odd and potentially troubling aspect of the charges is that this all took place in public he Tweeted out links to an article on his blog about how bitcoin and Darknet could help jihadi groups, making it difficult to say whether he was publishing information protected under free speech or was directly advising the terrorist organization Free speech qua speech isn't the only relevant charge, though Amin also admitted facilitating the travel of another teenager, 18-year-old Reza Niknejad, to Syria to join IS Amin faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison if convicted IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574012.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574012.shtml 2015-06-12 12:19:08 - Security Bloggers Network : The new Twitter tool is meant to enable communities to share lists of problem accounts instead of having to pick them off one by one http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573816.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573816.shtml 2015-06-11 20:32:26 - OpenDNS Blog : View the story RIoT15 Twitter Weighs in on IoT in the Enterprise on Storify The post RIoT15 Twitter Weighs in on IoT in the Enterprise appeared first on OpenDNS Blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573753.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573753.shtml 2015-06-05 17:54:35 - Security Bloggers Network : Being able to see a politician's flip-flopping, via an archive of deleted tweets, was a valuable transparency tool RIP to that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573147.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573147.shtml 2015-06-01 01:45:26 - Security Bloggers Network : I was an early adopter to Twitter, opening my securityexpert account back in October 2008, I found Twitter has be an excellent tool for picking up and sharing information about information security news, articles, major breach http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572567.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572567.shtml 2015-05-30 21:45:50 - Security Bloggers Network : Apple provides a Siri-based workaround for the iPhone text of doom , but meanwhile Twitter and Snapchat users are also found to be at risk Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Hot for Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572510.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572510.shtml 2015-05-30 18:33:51 - Security Labs : Hot on the heels of Friday s announcement by Twitter that they detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data and subsequent confirmation that attackers may have had access to limited user information for approximately 250,000 users , Websense Security Labs are tracking a phishing campaign propagated via Twitter s direct message functionality Whilst no correlation between the two events can be drawn at this time, Twitter users should be on guard for signs of their own account being abused or compromised, as well for abnormal signs or unusual behavior or perhaps in many cases, more unusual than normal from those that they follow Specifically, users should be cautious, as always, when following any links received from direct messages or Tweets particularly if the page you've been directed to is asking for your credentials or personal information Given the recent compromise, Websense Security Labs suggest that you regularly check your online accounts for signs of compromise and, as if anyone needs an excuse to do so, regularly update your suitably complex and most definitely not your pet team town or dictionary word password as well as reviewing the permissions granted to third-party applications that have access to your accounts Twitter How to Connect and Revoke Third-Party Applications Should you have been unlucky enough to fall victim to this recent compromise, you'll have hopefully received a notification from Twitter that suggests these actions along with some general tips for account security Thankfully there are also suggestions, given this recent article on The Guardian s Web site, that Twitter may be looking to implement two-factor authentication in the future as they are currently advertising a Product Security Software Engineer role in which the successful candidate would have the opportunity to work with user-facing security features, such as multifactor authentication The implementation of two-factor authentication would be a welcome addition to Twitter s service which, based on figures released in 2012, has an estimated 500 million users, of which 200 million are estimated to be active The recent compromise is reported to impact 250,000 users, a mere 00005pourcents of total users or 000125pourcents of active users, and therefore may seem a somewhat small drop in the Twitter ocean It is not unsurprising, therefore, that attackers are continuing to target Twitter users by dumping a barrel load of phish into this metaphorical ocean This recent phishing campaign, given the samples analyzed by Websense Security Labs so far in this incident, is using lures likely to elicit a click when received from a friend or associate, such as Did you see this pic of you lol followed by a shortened URL Interestingly for us, and hopefully you, the use of Bitly s URL shortening service allows us to append the URL with a plus and then view statistics for the shortened URL Whilst the click rate for the above example is low, we ve seen numerous unique Bitly shortened URLs related to just one account, and would expect the perpetrators behind this campaign to rapidly cycle these in order to avoid detection and to increase the chances of catching more victims From all of the Bitly URLs analyzed, the statistics indicate that the victims are not confined to any one geographical area and that users are following the links With regard to the small percentage of non-Twitter referrers, these could be Tweets or Direct Messages accessed via other applications or indicative that the campaign is not limited to Twitter itself Once followed, the shortened URLs lead to what appears to be an intermediate and changing subdomain on hecro ru which in turn redirects to active phishing sites hosted on a variety of typosquat-style domains The phishing URL in the above example, Tivtter com ACEInsight Report appears at a glance to be legitimate and therefore is likely to dupe some unsuspecting victims into believing that they need to 're-login' to their expired Twitter session The URL in this example also appears to cycle through an alphabetic sequence of folders containing the phishing page, perhaps in order to gather some statistics or to split the campaign in some way, as we've seen active examples from a verify upwards n verify at the time of writing Once the letter has cycled onto the next, any attempt to access the phishing page will be met with a standard '404 - Page not found' error Should you fill in your account credentials, they'll be snaffled by those behind this nefarious scheme and you'll be presented with a fake '404' page not found error before being whisked back to the official Twitter Web site as if nothing happened As well as the URL above, we're also seeing other variations on the same Twitter typo theme including iftwtter com ACEInsight Report and iwltter com ACEInsight Report Reassuringly, Bitly are flagging many of the shortened URLs as potentially problematic although it is likely that for every one flagged another is sure to emerge Whilst Websense customers are protected from phishing and other threats by ACE, our Advanced Classification Engine, please do ensure that you check your personal accounts as well as sharing some basic security tips with your friends and family Update Friday, July 19, 2013 Websense Labs has been tracking a mutation of this campaign, once again spread via Direct Messaging DM The offending domain is a typo-squat - hxxp twitller com Ace Insight Report , This URL, if browsed to directly, will redirect the visitor to the legitimate https twittercom page However, the URL being DM'd is hxxp twitller com at1 indexphp Ace Insight Report - this page uses xmlHTTP to communicate with a third party web application, in order to generate a random URL, similar to hxxp twitller com 9wk45b verify account_secure_login - this is where the Phish will happen, exactly as described above Websense customers are proactively protected from this campaign Thanks to JanneFl for the initial identification of this campaign http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572489.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572489.shtml 2015-05-21 18:51:05 - Security Bloggers Network : Shouldn't Twitter do more to police promoted tweets, or could anyone buy a series of Twitter ads to spit out bile and hatred to thousands of others Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571561.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571561.shtml 2015-05-20 15:46:40 - Security Bloggers Network : What happens when - without warning - your mobile phone company stops sending you the SMS authentication messages, leaving you locked out of your social media accounts http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571377.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571377.shtml 2015-05-15 21:04:59 - Security Bloggers Network : Hey Everybody We re back from our 1 week break due to crazy schedules and even now we are without Jeremiah Coconuts don t make great WiFi antennae or something Started this episode talking about some Vendors who decided to do some weird, bad stuff this past week In both stories it seems some security vendors were http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570895.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570895.shtml 2015-05-09 14:32:44 - Security Bloggers Network : I m an avid NPR listener also follow a number of their programs and people on Twitter I really dig their quotable tweets Here s a sample of a recent one Minn state senators cannot look other senators in the eye during floor debate ailsachang http tco SfQBq4yyHQ pictwittercom DNHGEiVA9j NPR News nprnews May 8, 2015 I asked brianboyer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570229.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570229.shtml 2015-05-03 13:38:48 - Ars Technica Risk Assessment : Selerity's CTO explains why web scraping is the easy part http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569520.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569520.shtml 2015-04-27 19:51:38 - Security Bloggers Network : The website and Twitter account for sleek electric automaker Tesla Motors was taken over and defaced on Saturday, as was Tesla CEO Elon Musk s personal Twitter account http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568935.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568935.shtml 2015-04-27 04:32:14 - Computer Security News : Even the smartest, most innovative companies fall victim to hackers once in a while, as evidenced by the few hours of difficulty Tesla Motors experienced on their website and Twitter account Starting sometime between 4 00 and 5 00pm ET on Saturday, hackers took control of the company's official home page, Twitter account, and even founder Elon Musk's Twitter account for a brief time http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568844.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568844.shtml 2015-04-27 00:47:35 - Security Bloggers Network : Tesla Motors is famous for its high performance, gadget-filled, electric cars - but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a master of all technology This weekend Tesla's website and Twitter account was hijacked by hackers But how did they do it Re http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568836.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568836.shtml 2015-04-26 10:05:26 - Security Bloggers Network : Saturday, Electric Vehicle maker Tesla suffered a trifecta embarrassment as their website and Twitter account was compromised briefly, as well as CEO Elon Musk s Twitter account The website was defaced after the DNS for TeslaMotorscom was redirected to another server hosting an image with various messages and faces of a few people Since the attackers Read More The post Tesla s DNS Hacked Leading to Website and Twitter Hijacks appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568809.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568809.shtml 2015-04-22 17:59:11 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter has introduced a new feature that could block abusive and threatening tweets before they are even seen by victims http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568345.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568345.shtml 2015-04-21 21:43:25 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes After facing criticism that it gives trolls and hatemongers a platform to intimidate people, Twitter has now rolled out a new set of tools and policies to handle abusive tweets Previously, they only prohibited threats of violence that were direct and specific, but now that's been expanded to all threats of violence or tweets promoting violence They said, Our previous policy was unduly narrow and limited our ability to act on certain kinds of threatening behavior Twitter has also added non-permanent bans, as well as this W e have begun to test a product feature to help us identify suspected abusive Tweets and limit their reach This feature takes into account a wide range of signals and context that frequently correlates with abuse including the age of the account itself, and the similarity of a Tweet to other content that our safety team has in the past independently determined to be abusive Twitter's general counsel recently said, Freedom of expression means little as our underlying philosophy if we continue to allow voices to be silenced because they are afraid to speak up We need to do a better job combating abuse without chilling or silencing speech IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568196.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568196.shtml 2015-04-19 04:16:39 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes Twitter has updated its privacy policy, creating a two-lane service that treats US and non-US users differently If you live in the US, your account is controlled by San Francisco-based Twitter Inc, but if you're elsewhere in the world anywhere else it's handled by Twitter International Company in Dublin, Ireland The changes also affect Periscope What's the significance of this Twitter Inc is governed by US law it is obliged to comply with NSA-driven court requests for data Data stored in Ireland is not subject to the same obligation Twitter is not alone in using Dublin as a base for non-US operations Facebook is another company that has adopted the same tactic The move could also have implications for how advertising is handled in the future IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567737.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567737.shtml 2015-04-13 12:29:00 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter confirmed that its violations department had suspended some 10,000 accounts on 2 April for tweeting violent threats http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567050.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567050.shtml 2015-04-10 15:54:24 - SensePost Blog : Recently there were revelations about a GHCQ initiative called 'Lovely Horses' to monitor certain hackers' Twitter handles The guys over at Paterva quickly whipped up a Maltego Machine to replicate this Building your own LovelyHorse monitoring system with Maltego even the free version - it's easy We've wrapped some supporting transforms around that Machine to allow you to create and manage your own set of lovely horses Twitter accounts , and dubbed it 'Lovely Pwnies' You can obtain the transforms and original Machine via the new Maltego Transform Hub The video below illustrates its usage https wwwyoutubecom watch v RKe2U4JCtpo We're working on a pro-version to handle notifications of interesting events Drop us a line if you're interesting in hearing more about that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566864.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566864.shtml 2015-04-08 22:26:04 - Computer Security News : The Keeping up with the Kardashian star's account was hacked and a series of insensitive tweets were shared with her fans First she sent Justin Bieber fans into a frenzy with an inappropriate post, which read Just got done slobbing on JustinBieber's n http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566585.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566585.shtml 2015-04-08 15:54:42 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter hackers hit the account of TV reality star Kendall Jenner, posting tweets about her father and Justin Bieber Kendall Jenner is the latest member of the Kardashian Klan to have suffered at the hands of hackers Read more in my article on the We http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566520.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566520.shtml 2015-04-06 16:39:57 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : jaa101 writes ABC Australia reports Turkey has blocked access to Twitter and YouTube, over the publication of photographs of an Istanbul prosecutor held at gunpoint by far-left militants hours before he was killed in a shootout last week From the article Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said a prosecutor had sought the block on access to social media sites because some media organisations had acted 'as if they were spreading terrorist propaganda' in sharing the images 'This has to do with the publishing of the prosecutor's picture What happened in the aftermath of the prosecutor's killing is as grim as the incident itself,' said presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566192.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566192.shtml 2015-04-06 15:56:47 - Security Bloggers Network : Access to popular social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube has been shut down in Turkey, following a court ruling today The post Twitter and YouTube blocked in Turkey over hostage photos appeared first on We Live Security http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566184.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566184.shtml 2015-04-01 13:36:52 - Security Bloggers Network : If a user forgets to turn off the Twitter button before broadcasting a private video stream, the title gets shared with all the user's followers http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565630.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565630.shtml 2015-03-28 19:55:39 - Computer Security News : A British school has found itself the victim of an online hacker-prank, with its Twitter account hacked and revealing images purportedly of its head teacher posted online for everyone to see Read more from Hot Security Twitter followers of Oriel High, a secondary school in Crawley, West Sussex, found a stream of explicit language, claims that head teacher Philip Stack had joined a P0 n website, and a photo of Mr Stack's head superimposed on the heavily-tattooed body of a muscular male wearing a pair of tight underpants http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565188.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565188.shtml 2015-03-27 18:09:02 - Security Bloggers Network : A British school has found itself the victim of an online prank, with its Twitter account hacked and revealing images purportedly of its head teacher posted online Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565119.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565119.shtml 2015-03-27 13:45:41 - Security Bloggers Network : Nothing like a bit of Photoshopping and access to the school's Twitter account to turn an unwitting head teacher into a beefcake http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565068.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565068.shtml 2015-03-26 12:08:44 - Help Net Security : What does it take to execute a successful spam operation peddling diet pills of questionable effectiveness For one spammer, it took some 750,000 fake Twitter accounts Symantec researchers first s http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564894.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564894.shtml 2015-03-25 15:31:03 - Symantec Connect Security Response Billets : Lone spam operator impersonated major brands and reality TV stars to promote miracle diet pill spam IMAGE Read More http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564775.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564775.shtml 2015-03-25 10:40:30 - Security Bloggers Network : The quality filter will only be available on iOS verified user accounts for now, leaving unverified users left to confront the same old garbage and abuse in their notifications http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564726.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564726.shtml 2015-03-18 22:30:40 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : itwbennett writes Twitter is ramping up its efforts to combat harassment with a tool to help users report abusive content to law enforcement The reports would include the flagged tweet and its URL, the time at which it was sent, the user name and account URL of the person who posted it, as well as a link to Twitter's guidelines on how authorities can request non-public user account information from Twitter It is left up to the user to forward the report to law enforcement and left up to law enforcement to request the user information from Twitter IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563974.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563974.shtml 2015-03-16 21:21:19 - Computer Security News : A protestor wearing an anonymous mask looks on as other people demonstrate during a silent protest in the streets of downtown St Louis, Missouri on March 14, 2015 Ferguson, Missouri hit the headlines in August when a white policeman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, setting off protests that spread to major cities across the United States and triggered a national debate about police tactics, especially in relation to African Americans http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563649.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563649.shtml 2015-03-13 11:49:16 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter says it will lock accounts of users who post intimate content without subjects' permission, until the offending material's deleted, and might suspend accounts if the intent is harassment http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563310.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563310.shtml 2015-03-11 09:36:06 - Help Net Security : It didn't take long for spammers to jump on the Apple Watch bandwagon - they set up a Twitter account named Apple Giveaways , and began spamming out messages to random users, telling them they have b http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562952.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562952.shtml 2015-03-11 09:03:12 - Hackaday : Mastro Gippo is getting to be somewhat of a Hackaday legend He didn t win the 2014 Hackaday prize but was in attendance at the event in Munich, and to make sure he keeps up with this year s Prize, he built this old-school printer that prints all of the updates from the Hackaday Prize Twitter account The device uses the now-famous ESP8266 module for connecting the printer to the Internet It doesn t scrape data straight from Twitter though, it looks at Mastro Gippo s own server to avoid getting inundated with too many tweets at once The program splits the tweets into read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562949.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562949.shtml 2015-03-10 12:59:08 - Security Bloggers Network : New research Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts with Total Variation Minimization, by Ryan Compton, David Jurgens, and David Allen Abstract Geographically annotated social media is extremely valuable for modern information retrieval http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562799.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562799.shtml 2015-03-05 13:28:22 - Security Bloggers Network : Within 1 hour of the online onslaught against his daughter, the former Red Sox pitcher had published tormentors' names and backgrounds One was suspended, another lost his job, and others were kicked off school athletic teams http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562252.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562252.shtml 2015-03-02 06:19:25 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Patrick O'Neill writes After a wave of account bannings that marks Twitter's most aggressive move ever against ISIS, new images circulated from militants shows founder Jack Dorsey in crosshairs with the caption Twitter, you started this war The famously tech-savy ISIS has met a number of defeats on American-built social media recently with sites like Twitter and YouTube banning the group's efforts in unprecedented numbers IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561669.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561669.shtml 2015-02-28 20:57:14 - Lenny Zeltser : A new twist on the tech support scam prescreens potential victims by contacting them on Twitter and inviting them to call a phone number This approach appears to be designed to save scammers time by eliminating people who are unlikely to be persuaded by their social engineering tactics Using Twitter Bots to Initiate Contact The scam starts on Twitter, where the scammers respond to public messages Read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561609.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561609.shtml 2015-02-28 06:15:48 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : AmiMoJo writes Twitter announced that its abuse-report system, which was recently refined to simplify and shorten the reporting process, has now expanded to allow users to report content such as self-harm incidents and the sharing of private and confidential information aka doxing The announcement, posted by Twitter Vice President of User Services Tina Bhatnagar, explained that December's report-process update was met with a tripling of the site's abuse support staff, which has led to a quintupling of abuse report processing Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns, thanks to sock puppet account and relative anonymity IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561561.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561561.shtml 2015-02-26 21:34:37 - Security Bloggers Network : A few months ago we published an article, 21 AppSec Security Gurus You Should Be Following on Twitter, and even we were surprised with the buzz it created It seems we had hit a chord with our readers, who are apparently pining for new security people to follow on The post 16 CISOs and Security Leaders You Should be Following on Twitter appeared first on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561370.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561370.shtml 2015-02-26 19:14:04 - Security Bloggers Network : A new service from Barclays bank will allow its 'Pingit' users to send money to each other over Twitter http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561350.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561350.shtml 2015-02-20 22:27:52 - Security Labs : Is it just me, or spam on Twitter has been growing exponentially recently I've always been getting the occasional good-looking-not-very-dressed new follower notification by email, but recently, I've been receiving messages like this What is your experience with this What kind of spam are you seeing on Twitter Is there anything Defensio could do to make your life better on Twitter read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560511.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560511.shtml 2015-02-19 13:19:27 - Security Bloggers Network : The new tool, TweetDeck Teams, lets users share Twitter accounts without having to share passwords http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560209.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560209.shtml 2015-02-18 15:27:10 - Security Bloggers Network : WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro was the victim of a Twitter hack this week, as a wrestling fanatic hacked his account to vent against company chairman and CEO Vince McMahon The post Hacker puts words into wrestler s mouth in WWE Twitter hack appeared first on We Live Security http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560057.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560057.shtml 2015-02-17 16:19:12 - Global Security Mag Online : Après Le Monde en Janvier c'est au tour de Newsweek de voir son compte Twitter piraté pendant quelques heures par des pirates se réclamant du groupe Etat islamique EI Comme nous le disions déjà lors de l'attaque subie par Le Monde, les comptes de réseaux sociaux tels que Twitter sont une cible de première importance pour les pirates Si certaines entreprises ont mis en place des procédés et des moyens techniques pour protéger leur compte Twitter contre le hijacking, la plupart n'ont rien de cela et - Malwares http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559895.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559895.shtml 2015-02-13 19:58:39 - Channel 9 : VS_Download Cards, flowers, candy The usual suspects for gift giving on Valentine s Day are abound and plentiful If however, you want to really stand out this year and let your loved one know how much you truly care --- a Twitter sensitive NeoPixel Heart is what the love doctor has ordered Join Stacey Mulcahy as she shows us how to create this IoT Valentine s Day special Check out the full article here _______________ Find a full step-by-step tutorial of this project and others on our idevthis look-book Share your version of this project or a project of your own for a chance to be featured using the idevthis hashtag on Twitter _______________ Follow the conversation msdev Become a Fan facebookcom MSFTDev Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes, Windows Phone Marketplace or RSS If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information Websites Blogs Stacey s Blog Stacey s IoT resource collection Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 90-day Free Trial IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559523.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559523.shtml 2015-02-12 15:25:46 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter's Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto is making headlines again after having his Twitter account hijacked and used to send out spammy links http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559296.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559296.shtml 2015-02-11 02:32:29 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter should be drumming into its staff how to secure their accounts against potential attacks rather than having them hijacked with seemingly such ease http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558967.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558967.shtml 2015-02-11 00:52:50 - Computer Security News : The Twitter account for Newsweek appears to have been compromised by hackers supporting ISIS, and included a threat sent to First Lady Michelle Obama The profile and banner photos have been swapped out by a 'Newsweek' Twitter account compromised The Twitter account for Newsweek appears to have been compromised by hackers supporting ISIS, and included a threat sent to First Lady Michelle Obama http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558961.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558961.shtml 2015-02-10 23:41:37 - Computer Security News : Several posts to Newsweek's Twitter feed referenced Cyber Caliphate, a hacker group affiliated with the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the hacking The posts, which began shortly before 11 am Eastern, included a message targeting President Barack Obama, the first lady and their daughters http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558953.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558953.shtml 2015-02-10 22:07:03 - Office of Inadequate Security : Oriana Pawlyk reports that CyberCaliphate claimed responsibility for the hack of Newsweek s Twitter account earlier http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558940.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558940.shtml 2015-02-08 11:23:34 - Computer Security News : Hackers apparently seized the Twitter account of popular fast-casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill early Sunday morning, tweeting obscenities and replacing the brand's main icon with a swastika before being recovered, and the tweets deleted, hours later The first tweet indicating the account had been hacked was posted at 1 59 am ET on Feb 8th http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558557.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558557.shtml 2015-02-08 10:26:52 - Security Bloggers Network : Chipotle s website and official Twitter account appear to have been compromised The website was redirected on Saturday around 6PM PST to Chipotle s official twitter account chipotletweets The website is now unresponsive The Chipotle domain s technical and administrative contacts for the domain have been updated with a message from the attacker s The chipotletweets Twitter account also Read More The post Chipotle Website Twitter Account Hacked appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558552.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558552.shtml 2015-02-06 14:51:31 - Security Bloggers Network : Join us for a Twitter Chat on Tuesday 10 Feb 2015 at 3pm EST There's no sign-up process, and you don't even have to have a Twitter account All you need is a web browser http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558379.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558379.shtml 2015-02-06 12:27:21 - Security Bloggers Network : How the story of one Twitter troll motivated Dick Costolo to admit that the suckage has gone on for years, and it's about time that it changed http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558364.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558364.shtml 2015-02-05 16:27:05 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : AmiMoJo writes We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform, and we've sucked at it for years, wrote Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in a leaked internal post We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day Gamergate is only the latest and loudest example of harassment Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, left the service last August because of the disturbing images and attacks she received after her father's suicide Advocates have offered numerous suggestions for fixing the problem, including improving responsiveness to reports and better blocking tools IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558217.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558217.shtml 2015-01-28 05:31:57 - Security Bloggers Network : Hackers briefly got control of the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Taylor Swift, the Grammy-winning American pop-star, creating a stir on social media Here's how to make sure your accounts are safe http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556872.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556872.shtml 2015-01-27 19:24:22 - Sucuri Blog : Over the past few weeks, our Security Operation Center SOC has been seeing some different, and very suspicious requests to some of our servers At first we thought it was a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack, mainly due to the high concentration of requests thousands per second Looking further however, it actually seemed like Read More http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556805.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556805.shtml 2015-01-23 20:25:49 - adafruit industries blog : Great project Check out more here heywpi is a simple project that pulls twitter mentions from the twitter account heywpi scans the text of the tweets for colors, and then lights up a window on the WPI campus with that color using RGB LEDs Once the new color has been written the LEDs, a photo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556345.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556345.shtml 2015-01-23 14:18:01 - Security Bloggers Network : US school students in the state of Illinois may be forced to give up their social media passwords if they're suspected of cyberbullying or of otherwise breaking school rules http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556282.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556282.shtml 2015-01-23 11:13:12 - TEHTRI Security RSS : We found a 0day on Twitter platform, allowing to do a kind of tweet spoofing against any account We sent an advisory, where we made a demonstration, showing that we could generate a kind of fake tweet on any already existing twitter account Though it's not that critical, we believe that this bird spoofing issue could be used by attackers in order to generate massive phishing attacks, or deception attacks with fake information, fake links, etc We will keep you updated http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556265.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556265.shtml 2015-01-21 16:27:11 - Security Bloggers Network : The Syrian Electronic Army strikes again Are you using two-factor authentication You should be Learn more in my article on the We Live Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555711.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555711.shtml 2015-01-21 06:35:17 - Computer Security News : A group of pro-Syrian regime hackers briefly took over the Twitter account of France's Le Monde newspaper early Wednesday, tweeting several messages including one reading Je ne suis pas Charlie The tweet was a negative reference to the Je Suis Charlie hashtag that became a popular way of showing solidarity in the wake of this month's Islamist attack on Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555640.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555640.shtml 2015-01-21 06:35:17 - Computer Security News : French newspaper Le Monde said its twitter account and publishing tool were hacked by a group called the Syrian Electronic Army , an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad The hackers managed to infiltrate our publishing tool before launching a denial of service, the newspaper said on its website http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555639.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555639.shtml 2015-01-15 01:15:00 - Office of Inadequate Security : Mark Hosenball reports The CyberCaliphate hacking group that attacked a Twitter account belonging to the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554697.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554697.shtml 2015-01-14 21:10:43 - Security Bloggers Network : In case you were wondering, guessing a password doesn't constitute hacking http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554672.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554672.shtml 2015-01-14 21:10:43 - Security Bloggers Network : Microsoft is giving customers a new avenue for obtaining support for the company's Surface tablets read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554671.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554671.shtml 2015-01-14 19:03:31 - Computer Security News : Computer whizz Junaid Hussain who fled UK to join ISIS fighters in Syria two years ago was previously jailed for hacking Tony Blair's internet accounts A British hacker fighting for Islamic State forces is the main suspect in a cyber attack on the US military's central command Junaid Hussain, 21, who escaped to Syria two years ago while on police bail, is the terror organisation's most accomplished computer whizz http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554648.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554648.shtml 2015-01-14 06:38:33 - Computer Security News : Hackers with a self-dubbed Aocyber caliphateAo took over the US Central Command Twitter account Monday, January 12, 2015, tweeting out pro-ISIS messages and what appears to be American military data What does the hack of social media accounts for the US military's central command - by people claiming to be working with Islamic State militants - mean to Canadian governments and politicians Here's what you need to know http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554447.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554447.shtml 2015-01-13 13:12:30 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter and YouTube accounts run by the US military s Central Command are hijacked by hackers claiming to back Islamic State Twitter and YouTube accounts run by the US military s Central Command are hijacked by hackers claiming to back Islamic State Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554311.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554311.shtml 2015-01-13 09:47:50 - Computer Security News : The Twitter and YouTube sites for US Central Command were hacked this morning by a group aligning itself with Isis The self-declared Cybercaliphate is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base, the hackers wrote on the seized Twitter feed for Centcom, which oversees the US-led air war against the group in Iraq and Syria http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554281.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554281.shtml 2015-01-13 01:35:31 - Computer Security News : The Twitter account of the Pentagon's command for its forces in the Middle East appears to have been hacked, according to tweets in its name CENTCOM'S Twitter, YouTube accounts hacked WASHINGTON -- The Twitter account of the Pentagon's command for its forces in the Middle East appears to have been hacked, according to tweets in its name http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554253.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554253.shtml 2015-01-11 12:55:27 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter has released an open source tool that can be used by software developers to detect various types of anomalies Read more on the Hot for Security blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553992.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553992.shtml 2015-01-09 15:36:16 - Security Bloggers Network : Many corporations are not aware of the types of data that can be found and used by attackers in the wild The information that you will be able to find will vary from target to target, but will Go on to the site to read the full article http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553822.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553822.shtml 2015-01-07 12:59:21 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter has released a tool which detects unusual activity across Big Data to the open-source community http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553404.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553404.shtml 2015-01-06 23:48:50 - Computer Security News : WBOC is alerting viewers that the WBOC website and WBOC Twitter page were hacked late Tuesday morning by an individual or a group calling itself the WBOC Website and Twitter Page Hacked WBOC is alerting viewers that the WBOC website and WBOC Twitter page were hacked late Tuesday morning by an individual or a group calling itself the Check out this story on WUSA9com http onwusa9com 1BvKIGj WBOC is alerting viewers that the WBOC website and WBOC Twitter page were hacked late Tuesday morning by an individual or a group calling itself the CyberCaliphate http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553346.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553346.shtml 2015-01-03 16:30:39 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut provoquer un Cross Site Scripting de WordPress Twitter LiveBlog, afin d'exécuter du code JavaScript dans le contexte du site web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552921.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552921.shtml 2015-01-03 16:30:39 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut provoquer un Cross Site Scripting de WordPress Post to Twitter, afin d'exécuter du code JavaScript dans le contexte du site web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552915.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552915.shtml 2015-01-01 21:14:15 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : theodp 442580 writes Giving others the impression that individuals support something that they actually don't could get you fined and placed under house arrest But if you're Twitter, it could boost your bottom line Gigaom's Carmel DeAmicis reports that brands pay Twitter to falsely appear in your following list, an advertising technique brought to light by William Shatner after he saw that 'MasterCard' appeared in his following list despite the fact that he didn't follow it By making it look like someone follows an account that they don't, writes DeAmicis, it sends a false signal that said user cares about that brand Although the brands are marked as 'promoted,' it's not necessarily clear that the user in question doesn't actually follow the brand There's ethical considerations to be had Hypothetical examples What if you're vegan and don't want people to think you're following Burger King Or you're the CEO of Visa and don't want people thinking you're following MasterCard Or you're a pro-life activist and don't want people thinking you're following Planned Parenthood Or, if you're BarackObama and don't want people to think you're following TPPatriots IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552673.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552673.shtml 2014-12-31 11:43:48 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut provoquer un Cross Site Scripting de WordPress twitterDash, afin d'exécuter du code JavaScript dans le contexte du site web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552482.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552482.shtml 2014-12-31 11:43:48 - Vigilance vulnérabilités publiques : Un attaquant peut provoquer un Cross Site Scripting de WordPress iTwitter, afin d'exécuter du code JavaScript dans le contexte du site web http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552481.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552481.shtml 2014-12-23 16:31:12 - Computer Security News : Sony has told Twitter it must suspend the accounts of people who posed hacked material from the movie studio and block those tweets -- or face legal consequences David Boies, Sony's top attorney, had already written to traditional news organizations, including CNN, asking them to stop examining and publicizing the corporate secrets that hackers have made public http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551607.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551607.shtml 2014-12-23 04:58:34 - adafruit industries blog : Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Sony s battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself Sony s lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action if the social networking company doesn t ban accounts that are sharing the leaks, according to emails obtained by Motherboard http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551522.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551522.shtml 2014-12-23 00:19:30 - tmp lab : Vidéo disponible également ici http mediasusinetteorg medias presentations-et-conferences tmp-lab article pourquoi-twitter-n-a-pas-renverse http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551508.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551508.shtml 2014-12-20 20:59:11 - TorrentFreak : Prominent movie torrent release group ETRG had its Twitter account suspended today for an alleged copyright infringement The incident is rather unique as ETRG hasn't tweeted any links to pirated material Source TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing and anonymous VPN services http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551284.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551284.shtml 2014-12-19 12:08:06 - adafruit industries blog : In this video, The Royal Institution shows us how to build a glowing twitter signal that alerts you to hashtag use Read the full tutorial here Use fairy lights and a Raspberry Pi to make a beacon that flashes every time a hashtag is tweeted Click here for the full instructions and code http bitly TwiBeacon Subscribe http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551042.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551042.shtml 2014-12-09 15:44:19 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : HughPickenscom writes On 30 August 2012, Hollywood star Clint Eastwood took the stage to lambast President Obama What ensued was an odd, 11-minute monologue where Eastwood conversed with an empty chair upon which an imaginary Barack Obama sat The evening of Eastwood's speech the official campaign Twitter account MittRomney did not mention the actor, while the Obama campaign deftly tweeted out from BarackObama a picture of the president sitting in his chair with the words This Seat's Taken The picture was retweeted 59,663 times, favorited 23,887 times, and, as importantly, was featured in news articles across the country According to Daniel Kress both campaigns sought to influence journalists in direct and indirect ways, and planned their strategic communication efforts around political events such as debates well in advance Despite these similarities, staffers say that Obama's campaign had much greater ability to respond in real time to unfolding commentary around political events PDF given an organizational structure that provided digital staffers with a high degree of autonomy Romney's social media team did well when it practiced its strategy carefully before big events like the debates But Obama's social media team was often quicker to respond to things and more creative According to Kress, at extraordinary moments campaigns can exercise what Isaac Reed calls performative power, influence over other actors' definitions of the situation and their consequent actions through well-timed, resonant, and rhetorically effective communicative action and interaction During the Romney campaign as many as 22 staffers screened posts for Romney's social media accounts before they could go out As Romney's digital director Zac Moffatt told Kreiss, the campaign had the best tweets ever written by 17 people It was the best they all could agree on every single time IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549204.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549204.shtml 2014-12-03 21:06:22 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter is making changes which should make it easier and quicker for users to report abuse or flag inappropriate content http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548357.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548357.shtml 2014-12-03 14:57:01 - NP Incomplete : The web has started commenting on twitter's decision to limit the number of accounts that a given user can follow Having a hard limit is a smart move for multiple reasons Not only does it allow you to more finely bound the computational load of the message passing architecture, it negatively impacts only two groups, namely spammers and the obsessive-compulsive This is a good first step that I have pointed out in an interview once before I suspect that Twitter will also be working on a throttling policy as well as an IP and content blacklisting technology as follow-on mechanisms to continue to battle spam http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548234.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548234.shtml 2014-12-03 14:56:29 - Blue Box The VoIP Security Podcast : FYI, if you use Twitter, you can now find out when new shows are out and or interact with Jonathan and I by following us at http twittercom blueboxpodcast And yes, new shows are on the way I've been a wee bit busy with http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548224.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548224.shtml 2014-12-01 19:23:46 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Sussex and Surrey police plan on fighting drunk driving with the help of twitter this Christmas The police say that they will tweet details of accused intoxicated drivers, including where, when, and who was stopped throughout December From the article They're cruising the streets for embarrassing tweets It's no secret that every year, the number of people driving under the influence of alcohol shoots up around Christmas As part of its yearly crackdown, police in Sussex and Surrey are taking to Twitter to document the alcohol-related arrests they make on the road Each snippet mentions where and when the motorist was pulled over, but also, more importantly, their name if they're eventually charged Those who were stopped last year aren't getting off lightly either officers are reportedly putting up posters to show exactly where motorists were caught over the limit IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547902.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547902.shtml 2014-11-27 21:49:28 - Security Bloggers Network : Twitter is set to start peeking on users' iPhones, iPads and Androids in order to see what apps they have downloaded It's opt-in by default, so here's how to opt out IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547586.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547586.shtml 2014-11-26 13:33:06 - Security Bloggers Network : Don't worry, you're not the only one to ever hit reply all and then run through the office screaming at people to delete it Even Twitter execs can mistakenly push out public Tweets that were supposed to be private, direct messages IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547365.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547365.shtml 2014-11-21 15:02:58 - Security Bloggers Network : Learn how to protect yourself online, not just on the forthcoming Cyber Monday, but for the rest of the year as well Join us and the Center for Internet Security in a Twitter chatand bring your friends and family, too IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546660.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546660.shtml 2014-11-17 18:14:23 - Security Bloggers Network : A woman who was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for sending abusive tweets to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez has spoken of her regret over the abuse she dished out on Twitter IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545814.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545814.shtml 2014-11-17 01:21:03 - Security Bloggers Network : After racial hate group Ku Klux Klan said it would use 'lethal force' on Ferguson protesters, a skirmish with Anonymous erupted Anonymous has now seized the 'KKK USA' Twitter account IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545713.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545713.shtml 2014-11-11 06:28:09 - SecurityTube.Net : You've enabled HTTPS on your site Now what How do you protect against sslstrip attacks, CA compromise, and the dangers of mixed content jimio will share some approaches they've taken twitter Strict-Transport-Security, secure SEO with canonical link elements, Content Security Policy, and certificate pinning There will be code, exploits, and open source There will be a few fun stories to share as well, and since this is an SSL talk, you KNOW there's gonna be heartbleed Speakers jimio For More Information please visit - http wwwhopenet speakershtml IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/544729.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/544729.shtml 2014-11-06 22:34:41 - Ars Technica Risk Assessment : Verizon tells customers not to give out passwords and disregards its own advice http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/544183.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/544183.shtml 2014-11-04 16:39:49 - SecTechno : http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543727.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543727.shtml 2014-11-03 03:55:44 - Computer Security News : British pop star RITA ORA has accused a Twittercom hacker of threatening to leak her new music after an apparent attempt at self-promotion online backfired on Halloween Fans failed to respond with enthusiasm on Friday afternoon when a message popped up on her official social networking blog, reading, Dropping my new song monday if this get 100,000 retweets http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543511.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/543511.shtml 2014-10-29 02:39:11 - Computer Security News : ONE DIRECTION star NIALL HORAN has fallen victim to cyber-crooks who hacked into his brother's Twittercom page and posted a series of fake messages about the singer Greg Horan appeared to be picking a fight with his famous sibling when two messages appeared on his profile slamming the star for failing to visit his 15-month-old nephew, Theo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/542965.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/542965.shtml