Sunday, 5 May 2013

Justin Bieber Twitter Account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army!

Justin Bieber Twitter were suspended by midday Saturday.The hacked account read: "Breaking! Exclusive: Justin Bieber to E!online 'I'm a gay'" The Syrian Electronic Army was here.
Even Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has become the target of hackers. They would be to blame for the disastrous state of the Syrian refugees, it said in the tweets.
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claimed responsibility for a takeover of the Associated Press Twitter account.The SEA appears to use so-called “spear phishing” e-mails, in which targeted users are tricked into revealing sensitive information. Associated Press reporter Mike Baker tweeted that the hack came less than hour after some employees “received an impressively disguised phishing email.\

kids With Java UpgradeTake over school Network of 300 machines

A group of pupils at a middle school in Alaska took control of their classroom computers after phishing for administrator privileges.
Students were manipulating their machines, so the teachers thought they were installing an upgrade of Java for example, and in the background something else was running that the teacher was actually logging into as well. And it only took one time,” said Casey Robinson, Schoenbar’s principal.
He says he learned about the hacking on Friday, when some other students reported that something was going on.
The district’s technical supervisor, Jurgen Johansen, says he’s surprised this didn’t happen sooner. He says the technique is called social hacking, and it’s something his generation used.
After the students gained access to the system, Johansen says they added administrative accounts, which they used to “spy” on each other. They were able to tap into each other’s laptops, and control them remotely.
Robinson says he doubts any personal information was compromised by the hacking incident.
“I don’t believe any hardware issues were compromised,” he said. “No software issues were compromised. I don’t think there was any personal information compromised. Now that we have all the machines back in our control, nothing new can happen.”
That’s 300 machines, by the way, and district computer technicians will have to go through each one to see who participated in the scheme. Johansen says that after a lot of overtime, the IT department should know in about a week.
Once the investigation is complete, some kind of discipline is likely. To determine appropriate punishment, Robinson says the district will look at the student code of conduct, the computer-use agreement that each student and parent has to sign before getting a laptop, and district policy.
He added that protocols likely will change, too.
“How we do business is definitely going to have to change when it comes to updating programs and resources on the machines,” he said. “Yes, something new is going to have to happen.”