London: The Financial Times' website and Twitter feeds were hacked on Friday, renewing questions about whether the popular social media service has done enough to tighten security as cyber-attacks on the news media intensify.
The Syrian Electronic Army, an online group that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was behind the incident which followed a phishing attack on the company's email accounts, FT reported on its website.
The attack is the latest in which hackers commandeered the Twitter account of a prominent news organization to push their agenda. Twitter's 200 million users worldwide send out more than 400 million tweets a day, making it a potent distributor of news.
"Twitter has become a big enough media outlet that they should provide better security for high-value accounts like the Associated Press, the FT and others," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with security software maker F-Secure....
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12:46 PM, May 18, 2013
New York: Don't worry, Pinterest fans: Your sprawling virtual pegboards of wedding dresses, handmade jewellery, craft projects and food porn haven't changed dramatically. They're just easier to manage. The popular link- and photo-sharing website has rolled out an update, one offering people simpler navigation and new ways to arrange their boards to fit their needs. Although the haphazard spirit of Pinterest remains, the site is much less overwhelming. I wasn't...
08:45 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Three Navy officers are being terminated from service for divulging secret information on social networking websites such as Facebook and the primary reason for these cases of indiscipline was "moral turpitude", the Defence Ministry has informed a Parliamentary panel. It also told the Standing Committee on Defence that in three cases of face-offs between troops and officers in the Army, the forces have taken action against 219 officers,...
09:11 PM, Apr 29, 2013
London: Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the library has kept a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper published in Britain. Starting Saturday, it will also be bound to record every British website, e-book, online newsletter and blog in a bid to preserve the nation's "digital memory." As if that's...
12:32 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Google Inc's YouTube said on Thursday the number of unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month has reached 1 billion, about six months after social media company Facebook Inc also said it had the same amount of users. ...
10:02 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Government has blocked a total of 254 URLs (web addresses) or uniform resource locators in 2013, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Of the total URLs blocked, 60 URLs were of sites hosting videos of the film Innocence of Muslims and 194 URLs were blocked in compliance of court orders, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. ...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The government has ordered a probe into reports that Chinese hackers targeted sensitive government files. Hundreds of sites are among those said to have been hacked. The DRDO though denied any of its sites were targeted. ...
04:05 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The United States was the origin of more than half of the hacking attacks on China in the first two months of 2013, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday, amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington over the use of the Internet. Beijing and Washington have been squaring off for months over the issue of cyber attacks, each accusing the other of hacking into sensitive government websites. ...
06:24 PM, Mar 10, 2013
In a new crackdown on online pornography, China has shut down 225 websites and other content sharing and social media sites, the government said. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The court order had asked Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to block 78 web pages including that of University Grant Commission (UGC). ...
06:51 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Google is the most trusted online brand in the country, with Facebook coming in at number two, says a study by Brand Trust Advisory. Yahoo has emerged as the second-most trusted search engine after Google, says the report. ...
11:00 PM, Feb 25, 2013
The new look Yahoo will roll out to US users over the next few days. ...
07:35 PM, Feb 20, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial IIPM. ...
08:35 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) and its head Arindam Chaudhuri, including a University Grants Commission notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. The URLs blocked included many from mainstream news organisations such as Firstpost, Outlook, Times of India, Rediff, Indian Express and Economic Times,...
04:46 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Indian Institute of Planning and Management is embroiled in yet another controversy as the government has directed Internet Service Providers to block over 73 URLs carrying defamatory articles about the private business school and its chairman Arindam Chaudhuri. These URLs include a University Grants Commission (UGC) notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 16, 2013
If you missed any of the Super Bowl ads your friends and co-workers are talking about, Hulu, CBS and YouTube are among the websites that let you watch them. ...
11:59 AM, Feb 05, 2013
New Delhi: Over 14,000 websites have been hacked by cyber criminals till October this year, an increase of nearly 57 per cent from 2009. While the number of websites hacked in 2009 stood at 9,180, it grew to 14,232 in 2011 and in the first 10 months of this year itself it has already crossed the 14,300-mark. About 16,126 websites were hacked in 2010, while 14,392 websites were hacked in...
11:13 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Washington: Love at first flight! Stranded airport passengers are increasingly turning to travel dating websites to combat boredom and meet new people while they wait at the departure gate. Steve Pasternack, a web entrepreneur, has created a dating website Meetattheairport.com that enables travellers to connect at the airport. The website already has 20,000 members worldwide according to founder Pasternack, who created the website after a delayed flight left him stranded...
05:08 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Google Pakistan homepage has been apparently hacked by Turkish hackers. If you go to google.com.pk, you will find a black page with something written in Turkish. The translation of the text, written on the website, is: "eboz. My homies in a friend always there for me. Have not shot by me with every breath." The hackers replaced the Google logo and search bar with an image of...
03:17 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Jerusalem: A concerted effort of millions of attempts to cripple Israeli websites during the Gaza conflict has failed, Israel's finance minister said Monday, claiming that the only site that was successfully hacked was back up within minutes. Cyber security experts said that such hacking attempts have become a new aspect of modern-day warfare and states have to invest in fortifying their virtual defenses on a battleground with vague terrain. Israel...
10:58 AM, Nov 20, 2012
