Gone Phishing

April 23, 2013 Subscribe · Forward How AP's Twitter Account Got Hacked A hacker group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army took credit for hacking the Twitter account of the Associated Press Tuesday and sending out a fake tweet about an explosion at the White House that injured President Obama. The tweet, which was re-tweeted thousands of times in minutes, had widespread repercussions, causing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to drop sharply before it quickly recovered. The attack showed how hackers are using so-called "phishing" techniques to compromise Twitter accounts belonging to some of the most respected news agencies in the world, renewing questions about the social network's security measures.  Continue reading... The Social Network That Could Beat Facebook At Its Own Game Twitter Needed 2-Step Verification Yesterday Reddit User Who Started 'Find Boston Bombers' Subreddit Quits Reddit Netflix Wants More Money From Moochers This Pro-Privacy CISPA Amendment Didn't Make The Cut WATCH: The High-Tech Way Police Found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Can Apple Save Itself? Something Monumental Happened On YouTube 8 Years Ago This Pro-Privacy CISPA Amendment Didn't Make The Cut Can Apple Save Itself? The Great Tinder Con: 70 Guys Swarm Froyo Shop Searching Dream Girl PETER DIAMANDIS Visioneering the Future This week at XPRIZE's Visioneering 2013, 120 of the world's visionary thinkers will gather for three days to discuss the world's grand challenges, and how we might solve them using incentive competitions. Continue reading... CRAIG KANALLEY #FreeJahar Campaign Shows Social Media Support for Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Not everyone believes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a terrorist. Despite seemingly overwhelming evidence pointing toward his involvement in the Boston Marathon attack a week ago, there is a group of people who know Tsarnaev who are remaining loyal to the 19-year-old. Continue reading... WILL STEPHEN What Can We Really Learn From Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Tweets? Just five hours after the bombs went off, as survivors fought for their lives in emergency rooms and law enforcement scrambled through wreckage for their first real clues, Tsarnaev swiped open his iPhone and shot off an entirely unremarkable message. Continue reading... CHRISTOPHER CALABRESE Stop Unreasonable Electronic Searches and Seizures Just before Tax Day, a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU revealed that the Internal Revenue Service claimed the authority to read emails, instant messages, and text messages -- all without a warrant. Continue reading... SUSAN LANDAU Boston and the Right to Privacy In an attempt to use the power of online communities, people scrutinzed photos and videos of the marathon finish line to find the bombers. It seemed as if that might help, but events didn't quite work out that way. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003