Twitter Classified Documents Leaked.

July 15, 2009 · Filed Under Security, Tech · Comment 

It seems that a lot has happen over night while I was sleeping. Reading TechCrunch this morning, I learned that they received an email with plenty of confidential information leaked from Twitter. For some odd reason the users at TechCrunch have responded saying that it is unethical to publish that information, even though websites do it all the time, that is how they get the information no one else has. It seems that the hack is somewhat related to what happen back in May where someone got access to several high profile accounts. To have gathered all this information the hacker must have been working from the inside or gone pretty deep in with his hack, unless Twitter security sucks.

The only thing TechCrunch has revealed so far from the documents is the announced TV Show that Twitter was/is thinking of doing called Final Tweet? It is a reality show where people have to complete tasks or mission, assuming that somehow like the amazing race but users Tweet about their updates and what they are up to and users could respond back to help them. If they still plan to do it I hope its more like they join some reality show that already exists because if they trying to start a new one then it smells like failure.

Update: Information about Twitter financial plans and earnings projected.

Lets see what else will TechCrunch be releasing any time soon…

Yasser

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ImageShack Hacked.

July 12, 2009 · Filed Under Security, Tech · 2 Comments 

It seems that the popular image hosting service ImageShack was hacked recently. Mashable is reporting that the website was hacked by a group calling themselves “Anti-Sec Movement”. It seems like they left a nice long message on the website saying who they are and what they do. They also added to their message that no images were damaged during the process which means they didn’t do any “specific” harm to the website. It had been a while since such a big service suffered from such a big hack. So far there is no information from ImageShack talking about the hack or any specific information of what the vulnerability was that allowed the attackers to take control over the website.

Yasser

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