W3 Boom! Magazine 1 st Ed 2013
W3 Boom! Magazine 1 st Ed 2013
Who is behind WordPress and Associated Press Hacks?
Today, April 23, 2013, Associated Press( AP) Twitter account was hacked around 1 pm EST. The hackers posted a message to more than 1.9 million followers about pomp explosion at the White House and injury of the president Obama. This tweet was re-tweeted around 5000 within one minute!
This small tweet caused a sudden drop in the stock market, which was a shocking surprise for the money world.
This Hack came after less than two weeks from the attempt to hack the WordPress( WP) blog installation. WP is the most popular blog platform which is owned by Google and used by millions. Over 90,000 IP addresses have lunched a brute force attack to target WordPress blog installations. There were several attempts to break the“ Admin” dashboard. Big hosting companies, like Hostgator and CloudFlare, reported that this attack has been the largest hacking attempt recently.
Hacking happens every day.
With millions of internet users and billions of websites, hacking became a common crime in the modern world. It only gets to the public attention when it happens on large scale or target popular sites. Sometimes hackers claim responsibility, but most of the times they stay quite.
For today hacking on the Associated Press, media reported that the Syrian Electronic Army claim responsibility for the accident.
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