CBS Twitter Accounts Hijacked, Hackers Tweeted Fake Messages

By Jane Gracielo, on April 22nd, 2013%
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Hackers are on the move again and attacked Twitter accounts of CBS network’s 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, tweeting bogus messages claiming US is supporting terrorist group.

The hijacking of accounts happened on Saturday and tweeted “Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with Al-Qaeda” using the 60 Minutes account. Other account 48 Hours retweeted the statement in their feeds, too.

There were a couple of messages made by the hijackers using the 60 Minutes account such as mentioning the heated issues about the Syrian Propaganda. The tweets read . . . → Read More: CBS Twitter Accounts Hijacked, Hackers Tweeted Fake Messages

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User Data, Released to the US Government by Google

By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on June 28th, 2011%
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Google says the US government inquires Google for user data more than twice as frequently as any other and is more probable to obtain its own means.

The US completed 4,601 requests, next by Brazil with 1,804 and India with 1,699 over the second half of previous year.  The figures relate to the entire Google services, counting YouTube videos, Gmail, Blogger blog posts and search results.

Google says in its transparency statement that it fulfilled with US demands in 94% of cases, compared with 90% of Japan, 88% of Singapore and 81% of Australia.

Matt Braithwaite of the company says, “Our . . . → Read More: User Data, Released to the US Government by Google

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