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Twitter users have faced spam and phishing since long. But now Twitter is preparing for handling similar kind of situations giving its user a reason to smile. Del Harvey, Director of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, wrote on the twitter blog “Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter.”
After Twitter, Google and Baidu its the turn of TechCrunch. TechCruch was hacked yesterday and the site remained offline for several hours. At first the site just said “hi” but later on a message as shown above appeared on the site. TechCrunch has not commented on this attack but it seems that only the main site TechCrunch was effected.
In the mean time we are gathering as much info as we can. Watch out for this space for latest updates.
When Google engineers realized that their servers are being hacked, they immediately started a counterattack operation. The servers were being hacked from Taiwan. Upon breaking into the Taiwan computer, Google found out evidence that at least 33 other companies, including Adobe Systems, Northrop Grumman, Juniper Networks
A few days ago Google announced that it was hacked and the attacks originated from China. Google also mentioned that 30 other companies were hacked including some giants in technology, finance, media and chemical sector. Surprisingly these attacks were not aimed at getting financial benefits but, according to Google “primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists”. Strange?
