American singer and actress Cher fell victim to the twitter account
hacks. Cybercriminals hijacked her account and posted a message about a
diet brand.
She come to know about the security breach after her followers told her account was hijacked.
"You guys I’m really upset about this hacking thing ! What diet are you all talking about ?!" In one of the tweets , she said.
She is not the only celebrity whose account compromised by the
cybercriminals. There are a number of celebrities fell victim to the
twitter account hijack. The list includes Alec Baldwin, Australian
model Miranda Kerr and Donald Trump.
"This fu**ing hacking weight loss shit. GOOOOOODDD!!!" Tweets posted by
Alec Baldwin. "IGNORE this weight loss trash. I mean, I'm all for weight
loss. But DAMN!!!"
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Thursday, 30 May 2013
Secunia apologises after accidentally disclosing zero-day vulnerability on public mailing list
Secunia, an international IT Security firm specialized in vulnerability management , has apologized after an unpatched zero-day vulnerability was accidentally sent to a public mailing list.
The story published yesterday by Security Week revealed the mistake Secunia made while forwarding the a zero-day details within an image viewing app. The email was supposed to be addressed to the vuln address at Secunia. However the auto-fill mistake address sent the details to the vim[at]attrition.org.
"While coordinating with the researcher, one email was accidentally sent from Secunia to a public emailing list, thereby making information about one of the vulnerabilities publically available." Secunia commented on the disclosed vulnerability.
"Upon realizing the mistake, Secunia immediately informed the vendor in question, who is currently working to create a patch for the vulnerability. Secunia is going through all procedures to ensure that this cannot happen in future.
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