Fraudsters Masquerading As British Banking On Twitter

Fraudsters have created an account on Twitter where they occur as the helpdesk of a British bank, but in reality they send people to a phishing site. The scammers registered on September 4 the account "AskMetroBank" and copied one-to-one to the profile information of the real Twitter account of Metro Bank, which can be found at "MetroBank_Help".

From the fake Twitter profile respond to the scammers on people's real Twitter account of the bank had asked a question. It was always used the same answer, that people to a phishing site by referring to verify the credentials of online banking there.Some users had the fraud by. Eventually warned also the bank for the scammers. Although the phishing site has since been taken down, the Twitter account of the scam is still active.

Website Tesla "Hacked" Via Social Engineering

This weekend, both the website and the Twitter account of Tesla Motors hijacked , something that was possible, according to the carmaker through social engineering. At the Tesla website showed a message with a picture and there were several messages on Twitter spread by the attackers.

According to a spokesman of Tesla began the attack by someone who has the support department of AT & T called and posing as a Tesla employee. Then the scammer made ​​calls to divert an illegal number. After this, the scammer contacted Network Solutions, the company that teslamotors.com host. Through the diverted telephone crook left to add an e-mail to the Administrator account of the Tesla domain.

This crook could reset the password of the domain account and then the website continue to another site and temporary access to the Twitter accounts of Tesla and Tesla founder Elon Musk, the spokesman opposite Forbes . Meanwhile, Tesla was with AT & T and Network Solutions are in consultation to prevent recurrence.

From examination of OpenDNS shows that the IP address of teslamotors.com indeed was adjusted at the time of the attack. According to OpenDNS was therefore not a "hack", but a DNS adjustment whereby the website Teslamotors.com pointed to a different IP address.

Research: IS Supporters Used 46,000 Twitter Accounts

Supporters of the terrorist organization IS Having September 2014 until the end of last year used an estimated 46,000 Twitter accounts. Researchers argue that JM Berger and Jonathon Morgan of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution .

The researchers collected data from about ( pdf ) 50,000 Twitter accounts, of which 30,000 IS supporters would be. Among other things, looked at the location, language settings and the number of followers of these accounts. It was found that IS adherents location data off more often than normal Twitter users, but not much more. Eventually, the researchers discovered that a small group of "hyperactive users" particularly active.

It is about 500 to 2,000 accounts that send large amounts of tweets. It also showed that the IS supportive Twitter accounts had an average of 1,000 followers, much more than normal Twitter users are. During the study period, at least 1,000 accounts closed by Twitter, but may run the actual number in the thousands. It was in particular accounts sent out many tweets and had many followers.

"The suspension of accounts have appreciable effects in limiting the size and scope of the IS activities on social media. At this time, not the current implementation ensures that these activities are eliminated and can not be expected," Morgan said and Berger. Based on their research, the researchers must cooperate social media companies and the US government to tackle extremism on social media.

Hacker's List: Hiring the right hacker!

You can not get past level 68 in Candy Crush, suspect your love of infidelity or would you adjust that one insufficiently your transcript? For a few hundred dollars you rule a hacker who can help.

Hacking is no longer reserved for large espionage services or organized crime.And not just big companies like Sony and Apple are the target. Behind all those familiar hacks grows a forest of home-garden and kitchen hacks.

On hackerslist.com you find all kinds of hacking requests:

- A player who wants help with a phone game .

- Someone who wants access to his old email account .

- Someone who all Whatsapp messages from another phone to receive .

- Someone who transcript will adjust at school.

The extent to which all these requests are real, it is difficult to ascertain. The site is now about three months. So far there are about 800 different jobs and have placed several dozen hackers made available through the site. The price for a hack ranges from several tens to about $ 5,000. 

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The website is not the only place where hackers and clients to visit each other.This allows you to Neighborhoodhacker.com order ethical hackers who check on order or you hack anyway falls.

The sites are controversial, because most contracts are illegal. According to the authors state in the conditions that only legitimate hacks may be placed. Last year, the FBI took a number of these types of websites offline and took dozens of people who hacks offered on the Internet. The makers of hackerslist.com therefore remain anonymous.