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Associated Press Twitter hack spreads fake White House bomb story, pushes down Dow Jones
With just under two million followers, AP's Twitter account has a wide reach, and is influential.
Influential enough, it seems, that a false rumour from the AP feed can have a visible affect on the stock market.
Secret legal review grants US president broad power to launch internet attacks
A secret legal review of the US's growing pile of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has "broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad."
FBI intent on sniffing out those who leaked possible US Stuxnet role
Federal investigators in the US are tightening the screws on former senior government officials who might have leaked info about the Stuxnet worm.
How Twitter users can fake a verified account - and how you can tell the difference
Learn a simple way to fool other Twitter users into thinking your account is verified..
And discover how you can tell the difference between a fake verified Twitter account and the real deal.
US Election voting booth hoax spreads on Facebook
Facebook users are mistakenly sharing a warning with each other about how to behave in voting booths during today's elections for the American presidency.
Stuxnet: How USA and Israel created anti-Iran virus, and then lost control of it
The Stuxnet virus was created by the USA to target an Iranian nuclear facility, but accidentally escaped into the wider world, claims the New York Times.
Fox News Twitter account announces Barack Obama dead after hack
A Twitter account belonging to Fox News has been hacked and posted false stories claiming that Barack Obama has been assassinated.
The President is finally taking charge? No, a Facebook phishing attack
Phishers are after your Facebook login details again, this time by spreading a link which purports to be a video of Barack Obama.
Obama: Gary McKinnon's fate is in the hands of the British legal system
Barack Obama has said that the decision as to whether hacker Gary McKinnon should be extradited to the United States lies with the British legal system.
Emergency alerts from President Obama on your mobile phone?
Mobile phone users could soon find themselves receiving emergency text messages warning them of terrorist attacks and natural disasters, under plans announced in the United States.
The truth about the Facebook Knob Face worm
Humans - dontcha just love 'em? And there are about 500 million of them on Facebook, and occasionally they try and help their fellow homo sapiens by sharing warnings about a new virus or worm storming across the network. Here's Read more…
Resignation of Barack Obama virus hoax
Once again a virus hoax is spreading quickly over the internet, forwarded by well-intentioned folk who really should have spent more time researching whether the warning was genuine or not. The warning tells people to look out for emails which Read more…
Barack's donor data may be safe, but site was not properly secured
On Monday this week I reported on donate.barackobama.com being hacked. While Blue State Digital and the Democratic Nationinal Committee may disagree, I stand by the statement. It was clear that something was incorrectly configured, whether the data that was exposed Read more…
Barack Obama hacked by SQL injection
This story has been updated with content that supersedes much of the original content. Updates are found at the bottom of the story Hackers disclosed this morning that they have been able to compromise BarackObama.com through a SQL injection attack. Read more…
President Obama wants you to protect your computer
It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States, and Barack Obama himself has been roped-in to encourage computer users to defend their computers and protect themselves against the threat of malware, hackers, spammers and identity thieves online. Disappointingly, despite Read more…
Iranian media falls for Obama BlackBerry hack hoax
A news website in Iran has been left with egg on its face after falling for a "joke" story about Barack Obama's BlackBerry being hacked, and secret emails between the US President and his closest aides being released to the Read more…
Details of Obama's chopper leaked via P2P software?
The US Presidential helicopter, known as "Marine One", must be one of the most highly secured aircraft in the world. Often seen on the White House lawn, "Marine One" always flies alongside a group of identical helicopters which act as Read more…
Barack Obama's social media guru visits Sophos
Ben Self came to the high-tech SophosLabs offices in North Sydney, Australia, a few days ago while he was visiting the country as a guest of the Internet Industry Association. Ben is a founding partner of Blue State Digital, and Read more…
Police catch man in "Monkey got out of the cage" case
A man has confessed to police that he sent a text message saying "The Monkey got of the cage" that was spammed out to cellphone users at the University of Florida on Tuesday. The man, who has not been named, Read more…
Has Barack Obama refused to be president? No, it's malware
As described by Richard Cohen on the SophosLabs blog, this weekend saw a major malicious spam campaign posing as news that Barack Obama was refusing to become President of the United States. There are many versions of the email using Read more…
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