hacking

Hacking your phone to hack your Instagram Members Public

How - and why - do people hack social media accounts?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Instagram

Hackers harvesting Instagram accounts Members Public

This month has seen a spate of connected Instagram account hacking - with no clear objective. Why?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Instagram

Misreporting the TalkTalk hacking Members Public

Tom Morris does an excellent job of highlighting the flaws in the reporting of the TalkTalk hack [https://tommorris.org/posts/9396]: > What’s curious though is how the mainstream media have not really talked very much to security experts. Yesterday, I listened to the BBC Today programme—this

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
hacking

When the FT got hacked Members Public

Disarming honesty – and useful experience [http://labs.ft.com/2013/05/a-sobering-day/] – from Andrew Betts at FT Labs: > About 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We’re not the first to be

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
financial times

Twitter Hacked - passwords compromised Members Public

Well, that was something to wake up to… Twitter has indeed been hacked, with 250,000 accounts exposed [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/02/02/twitter-confirms-that-it-was-hacked-and-250000-users-may-have-been-compromised/] , mine amongst them. > This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
hacking

The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation Members Public

John Gruber mused [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack] : > I have to wonder when WordPress users will start switching to some other platform. There’s a reason it’s not happening. They can’t. There are no good alternatives for a less technical user who wants to

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Automattic