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Disable Google Accounts with “Google Inactive Account Manager”
May 7th
‘Have you got a Google Account? Are you having an access to the various different services offered by Google? If yes is the answer to the above two questions then a third very important question arises, what is the fate of the documents in your account, emails sent or received, & photos that you have [...]
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Disable Google Accounts with “Google Inactive Account Manager” (needs picture)
May 6th
‘Have you got a Google Account? Are you having an access to the various different services offered by Google? If yes is the answer to the above two questions then a third very important question arises, what is the fate of the documents in your account, emails sent or received, & photos that you have [...]
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Anonymous Hacks Official North Korean Social Media Accounts
Apr 4th
As the world waits in bated breath and watches Pyongyang to make good on its nuclear threats, the hacker collective Anonymous has made its own move in the increasingly cyber conflict between North Korea and the world.
On Tuesday, the group claimed to have stolen 15,000 passwords from the communist nation as part of what it calls Operation North Korea. Late Wednesday, as tensions rose in Kaesong over the North’s closure and seizure of a industrial park it shares with the South, along with repeated declarations of nuclear launch, Anonymous advanced its own chess pieces. The hackers allegedly seized control of North Korea’s official Twitter and Flickr accounts, in the process defacing several related websites, and making the autocratic nation look extremely unprepared for cyber attack.
Tango Down flickr.com/photos/uriminz…
— uriminzokkiri (@uriminzok) April 4, 2013
The Uriminzokkiri accounts on both the social media networks, which translates to “our nation,” looked like anything but North Korea’s after the strike. The Twitter account’s avatar changed to a couple in Guy Fawkes masks tangoing, while the Flickr account filled up with less-than-flattering images of the supreme leader, Kim Jong Un.
In addition, several sites hocking propaganda material have been hit by digital graffiti (visit Aindf.com to see a wanted poster of Kim Jong Un). North Korean state-run news site Uriminzokkiri.com has been knocked offline, possibly by related DDoS attack. The Next Web is reporting that a Pastebin note, allegedly from the hacktivists, claims that they have agents on the ground fighting off the North’s “cyber army.” Below is an excerpt from the latest Pastebin message, supposedly penned by Anonymous members, explaining the group’s reasoning and m.o. for the attack:
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ecause of North Korea’s new threats today we are forced to
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contact you again.
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Within this release we also take the chance to set some things
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straight about our goals, because it seems some web citizens
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didn’t really get it right. Here we go:
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@ Kim Jong-un
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You just went full retarded! Never go full retarded.
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We feel really sorry for your suffering of TDS
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(aka “tiny dick syndrome”) but be assured, threatening the
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world with your nukes won’t make it any better at all.
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If you had finally opened up your country for the
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real internet, you would have already seen over 9000 ads for
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products devoted to solve your problem.
If Kim Jong Un really does have thousands of soldiets in his cyber army, it’s likely that this attack will soon be thwarted and things will go back to normal. Normal, of course, being very relative as the bluffing situation escalates between the peninsula and the rest of the world.
Will Anonymous’ actions (in February they hacked the U.S. State Department) push the conflict over the edge and give the 30-year-old despot reason to hit the launch button and plunge the world into hot war? Who knows what this digital assault will do to the man’s ego, since he is already eager to prove himself in the wake of his father’s passing.
When ex-NBA oddball Dennis “the Worm” Rodman seems to have more on-the-ground knowledge of the leader than every major intelligence agency combined, you know we’re in a pickle, no matter how you cut it. Anonymous is pulling on the tail of a tiger – if this is the prelude to the end of the world, let’s hope they have a viable plan for when the beast turns around and bears its fangs.
Image courtesy of Uriminzokkiri
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Ignite Visibility Announces the Top Twitter Accounts in SEO for 2013 – PR.com (press release)
Feb 11th
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Ignite Visibility Announces the Top Twitter Accounts in SEO for 2013
PR.com (press release) Ignite Visibility, a premier Internet marketing company focusing on SEO, social media, CRO and pay per click, has released a list of the top SEO Twitter accounts to follow in 2013. Ignite Visibility has created this list of over 90 SEO Twitter accounts … |
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#Twitter Changes Passwords of Hacked Accounts, Emails 250,000 Users
Feb 4th
Late Friday afternoon, Twitter began notifying account holders that their account security had been compromised and their passwords had been changed. In an article posted to the official Twitter blog, Bob Lord, Director of Information Security, said that unusual access patterns led to a discovery of a live attack in progress. That attack was shut down immediately, [...]
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Twitter Hack Compromises 250,000 Accounts #BadNews
Feb 1st
Add Twitter to the list of this week’s high profile hacks. Friday afternoon, Twitter joined the ranks of recently-compromised sites like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, disclosing that as many as a quarter of a million Twitter accounts may have been compromised in the intrusion. In a blog post, Twitter describes the breach:
“We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information – usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords – for approximately 250,000 users.”
Affected users can expect to receive an email from Twitter, though the company encourages all users to use this week as a reminder to practice good “password hygiene” by tweaking their Twitter password if it isn’t up to snuff (or making a new one even if it is). It’s always a good idea to mix things up, so be sure to sprinkle in a generous dose of alt-caps, numbers and symbols if you’ve been betting the farm on “Password123″ all this time.
“This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” Twitter said in the blog post. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.”
While Twitter is remaining mum for the time being on the specifics of the hack, it alluded to a known vulnerability in Java and instructed users to disable Java immediately. We’d suggest you do the same.
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Analytics Data Not Populating Into AdWords For Some Accounts
Jan 23rd
Google has confirmed reports that conversions from Google Analytics aren’t properly being imported into AdWords. Campaigns that are relying on this data for optimization such as CPA bidding aren’t getting data about conversions.
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Bug Affecting Optimization by Acquisition In Some AdWords Accounts
Jan 18th
Google has confirmed an bug that causes conversions from Google Analytics to not be imported into AdWords properly, which can cause issues with any campaigns using this data for optimization. The bug has been reported by posters at WebmasterWorld and discussed at Search Engine Roundtable, with some…
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Case Study: Quadrupling A Small Account’s Conversions In Just 90 Days
Dec 31st
CPA Bidding in Google AdWords allows you to set a CPA bid, and then Google will do all the bidding for you. When it works, its fantastic, as you don’t have to spend all day trying to set bids inside the account. Instead, you can focus you time on more permanent improvements, such as testing [...]
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Updated: Google Webmaster Tools Security Bug Re-Opens Access To Old Accounts [Now Fixed]
Nov 28th
A security bug in Google Webmaster Tools has given users access to old accounts and websites that they’re no longer supposed to be able to access. The problem was discovered Tuesday and reported on several SEO blogs and news outlets — including (first, I believe) by Dave Naylor —…
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