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US news agency GlobalPost's twitter and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
9/30/2013 5:26:00 PM

In a series of high profile hacks, 'Syrian Electronic Army (SEA)' just a few minutes before took control twitter account and website of 'GlobalPost', a US based news agency.

'Syrian Electronic Army is an organized hacking group loyal to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and known for their high profile cyber attacks.

The hacker posted two tweets from the victim's account, saying "Think twice before you publish untrusted information about Syrian Electronic Army" and "This time we hacked your website and your Twitter account, the next time you will start searching for new job :)" (as shown in the screenshot).

GlobalPost's Deputy Social Media and News Desk Editor 'Kyle Kim' also tweeted that "We've been hacked".

At this point it is unclear that How group managed to access the website and twitter account. We are connecting to the hackers for further information, stay tuned to the page for more updates on this.

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Mohit Kumar aka 'Unix Root' is Founder and Editor-in-chief of 'The Hacker News'. He is a Security Researcher and Analyst, with experience in various aspects of Information Security. Other than this : He is an Internet Activist, Strong supporter of Anonymous & Wikileaks.
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Another iPhone lockscreen bypass vulnerability found in iOS 7.02
9/30/2013 4:47:00 PM

Here we go again! Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 7.0.2 just to fix some Lockscreen bugs in iOS 7 and but a researcher has found a new Lockscreen bug in new iOS 7.0.2.

This new Lockscreen bug is found by Dany Lisiansky, and he uploaded a proof of concept video on YouTube with the complete step by step guide.

Unlike the previous bugs it will not expose your Email, Photos, Facebook and Twitter but allows attackers to access your phone call history, voicemails and entire list of contacts.

A step by step guide released by iDownloadblog:

1. Make a phone call (with Siri / Voice Control)
2. Click the FaceTime button
3. When the FaceTime App appears, click the Sleep button
4. Unlock the iPhone
5. Answer and End the FaceTime call at the other end
6. Wait a few seconds
7. Done. You are now in the phone app

Video demonstration 

It would be easy for someone who knows you or your love partner or your business partner to obtain your phone and call themselves from it to take advantage of this trick and they may only gain access to the Phone app.

Fixing this bug is pretty simple, Disable the Siri in Lockscreen by navigating to "Settings –> General –> Passcode –> Siri" and disable it there.

Also read that how an Iranian group defeated the iPhone Fingerprinting scanner Touch ID again, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints.

Author

Mohit Kumar aka 'Unix Root' is Founder and Editor-in-chief of 'The Hacker News'. He is a Security Researcher and Analyst, with experience in various aspects of Information Security. Other than this : He is an Internet Activist, Strong supporter of Anonymous & Wikileaks.
Follow him @ Twitter | LinkedIn | Google | Email | Facebook Profile

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