Month: January 2012

Chuck Norris is NOT deceased – be careful the Face book scam!

Chuck Norris Messages have been increase on Face book claiming to connection to a video news report of the death of overwhelming martial arts film star Chuck Norris. A characteristic message about the alleged bereavement of the “world’s greatest human” and star of such movie highlights as “Karate Kommandos”, “Delta Force”, “Forced Vengeance”, “Return of the Dragon”, “Invasion U.S.A”, “Missing in Action”, and “Missing in Action 2: The Beginning” reads as follows:

 

[Video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke.

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See the video to find out how he died. News today of Chuck Norris death at age 71 has been met with confusion and humor, but sadly it is true.

But Chuck Norris isn’t dead, and the messages tip to an all-too-familiar survey scam.

 

Whoever is at the back the erroneous messages about Chuck Norris’s death seem to want you to total one of these surveys. Almost certainly because it will earn them some affiliate cash the more traffic they bring to the WebPages.

In my case, I was taken to a website claim to offer a free £100 Starbucks card. (I don’t drink coffee, so I wasn’t tempted to hand over my individual contact information and date of birth).

 

If you’re one of the many people who fell for this or alike scams, please check your Face book page to make sure that you are not dispersal any messages to your online friends and ensure that you have revoked any Face book applications, events and “liked pages that you are painful with.

In addition, if you believe an important person else may have accessed your Face book account, be sure to change your password.

Paul McCartney Death Spam News

Paul is deceased! One of the odder, more amazing aspects of Beatles lore was this late ’60s rumor that McCartney had died in 1966 and had been replaced by an imposter. The rumor is far and wide supposed to have originated with an article in print in the Drake University student newspaper.

 

Radio disc jockeys continued to fuel it, Beatles songs were played toward the back in search of clues, which fans believed were planted by the Beatles, and books have been written on the topic. McCartney was very a great deal alive, and he performed at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival last spring, picture.

Rihanna Is NOT deceased

Sad News on one occasion Again, Singer and Songwriter RIHANNA passed away some Hours ago in a Plane collide on her way to Germany to shoot her new music video… Our Prayers and pity go out to her Family! Pass this message on So that people would know how small life is and that celebrity and fortune can’t buy your life.

 

According to messages that are at present circulate rapidly via Face book, Twitter and other social networks, singing star Rihanna has be kill in a plane crash.

However, the claims in the messages are false. Rihanna is living and well.

 

Celebrity page Gossip Cop has report on the story note that “Rihanna is the victim of a death hoax” and that the death rumor is “100% false”. And Gather.com confirms her “aliveness“.

 

Furthermore, the star herself has been redistribution on her own social networks since her hypothetical termination.And this is not the first time that the star has allegedly died. Rumors were circulating that claimed that Rihanna had died in a car mishap. In fact, the messages are just more incarnation in a long, sorry line of absurd celebrity death hoaxes that have circulated via email and social networks for many years.

 

If you receive a message claim that a famous person has died, it is shrewd to take the time to verify the claim via a of good reputation news source before sending it on. If the death really happened it will certainly be well covered by the normal media and stories about the death should be easily locatable via a Google News search.

FBI arrest supposed famous person e-mail hacker

The FBI nowadays under arrest a Florida man accuse of hacking into e-mail accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, and dozens of other celebrities, and release stolen photos of them to the Web.

 

Establishment arrested Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, Fla., as part of an 11-month investigation officials dub “Operation Hackerazzi,” according to a declaration from the FBI in Los Angeles.

 

 

The 26-count indictment, unsealed the past, charges Chaney with unauthorized right of entry of protected computers, wiretapping, identity theft, and damaging computers. He faces as much as 120 years in prison if convicted of all charges. official said they will likely request he be transfer to Los Angeles to face trial.

 

While officials said they had recognized more than 50 victims, only five were recognized by name: Johansson, Aguilera, Kuni, Simone Harouche, and Renee Olstead. Six other alleged victims were identified by initials: B.P., J.A., L.B., L.S., D.F., and B.G.The FBI alleges that Chaney mined unnamed public sources for information about the victims and used aliases, including “trainreqsuckswhat” and “anonygrrl,” to gain manage of their e-mail accounts. It’s not clear precisely how that was talented.

 

Chaney allegedly found extra victims from the address book on the compromise computers, used victim’s identities to access computers, intercept e-mails, and had e-mails that were sent to victims automatically forward to an account he forbidden, according to the indictment. “This form of wiretapping allowed Chaney to repeatedly receive victims’ e-mails even after a password had been reset,” the FBI said.

 

He also is accuse of distribute some of the photos and other information from the compromised accounts to celebrity blog sites, and as a result, some of the fabric ended up on the Web, officials said. The FBI confirmed to CNET that an investigation was underway last month after nude photos of Johansson appear on a celebrity news site. While Johansson and other victims had photos and other information stolen, another celebrity allegedly had sensitive financial data exposed to the world. Someone posted hip hop artist P Diddy’s credit card number, passport information, and phone numbers online, according to celebrity blog TMZ.

 

There have been other cases of celebrities getting accounts hacked, including Paris Hilton, whose Sidekick mobile phone was compromise and phone numbers of her celebrity contacts were posted to the Internet.

Ashton Kutcher Foursquare cut witness by millions of Twitter users

With in excess of nine million followers, Ashton Kutcher is a influential shape on Twitter.

 

A link or endorsement post by the actor, who lately alienated from Demi Moore, is amazing that many brands and websites would dream of, imagining the transfer that would approach as a result.So it’s maybe no shock to find that some mischief-makers strength also enjoyment in annoying to hack into Ashton Kutcher’s online financial records, to see what problem they could cause.

 

The “Two and a half men” star’s Twitter account post some bizarre messages on Sunday, it seems that confirm that he was in a romantic association with Lorene Scafaria:

 

First official sleepover with my girl @lorenescafaria so maybe breakfast with everyone next time! (@ Lorene’s House). [LINK]

and

Check out my new girl Lorene’s House (Los Angeles, CA) on foursquare. [LINK]

 

Celeb-watching websites jump on the news, which long-established rumours that have been milling approximately for weeks that Kutcher and Scafaria may be in a association but there was only one problem… the messages posted on Kutcher’s explanation weren’t made by him.It appears in its place that Kutcher had fallen victim to a hack. specially, it looks like Kutcher’s Foursquare account (which is connected to his Twitter account) may have been compromised, allowing the hacker to claim to be the actor examination into locations, and for them to be then tweet to his millions of fans.

 

Kutcher detached the aberrant tweets (perhaps worried about what Demi Moore would think)

 

Had Kutcher chosen a poor, easy-to-guess or non-unique password? We don’t know – but the injure was done, and it took some six hours for the star to become aware of and take any action.A hack like this could be awkward for anyone, but it actually must feel particularly annoying when you’re someone like Kutcher who has made no secret of in public invest in the Foursquare Company.

 

Kutcher posted some messages (subsequently deleted) to his Twitter account, acknowledging the hack:

 

So apparently someone thinks they are clever hacking my account. #lame

 

and

 

Ok mr hacker, you only made one mistake. You hacked my Foursquare and I now know your address. Whoops…. This is gonna be fun.

 

At the time of script, only one message connected to the hack leftovers on Kutcher’s Twitter account – an image it seems that presentation where the star believe his hacker to be located:

 

If Kutcher actually believes he may have a clue as to where his hacker is based, he would be better handing the information over to the police quite than (potentially) hopeful his more passionate fans to take the law into their own hands.

 

Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter account come under attack. Last year, for instance, the star was outfoxed by a hacker using the Fire sheep tool. While attending a TED conference in Long Beach, California, the actor’s Twitter account was hijack by an important person who posted pro-SSL graffiti (an attack that could have been with no trouble avoided).

Adam Ant is NOT deceased – in spite of come again? You may have understand writing on the net

Post have increase fast across Twitter and Facebook in the last few hours, claim that the 1980s British pop star Adam Ant has die.

According to the post, the musician – who had hits with songs such as “Prince Charming” and “Stand and Deliver” – died beginning injuries he continuous in a jet ski accident on the Turks and Caicos Islands.

 

Although some users are just tweeting their respects at the “news” of Adam Ant’s death, others are posting a link to what appear to be an online news report about the musical group death.

It’s a very depressing story. Or at smallest amount, it would be if it was true.

Here’s what you observe if you go after the link.

Do you notice the “adam.ant” in the url? I wonder what happens if I change that to include my own name.

Well imagine that – I’m a dead musician!

Some small print, built-in at the bottom of the webpage in a tiny font give the game away for anyone who hasn’t realised that the report is utterly bogus:

FAKE… THIS STORY IS 100% FAKE! This is an activity website, and this is a totally fake article based on zero truth and is a total work of fiction for activity purposes! This story was dynamically generated using a generic pattern and is not factual.

Of course, the pure number of people tweeting out the link won’t have done any damage at all for the website – which presumably is earn income from the adverts plastered on its imaginary news report.Always think cautiously before believing contravention news that someone has shared with you on the net. If a major news outlet has not established it to be true, it’s likely that you could be falling for a confidence trick.

Just imagine the damage that could occur if there was malware lying in wait at the finish of that salacious news story link?No hesitation this won’t be the last time that a rumour spreads swiftly across the internet that a celebrity has died. keep in mind when Christian Slater was killed in a snowboarding accident? Or Tom Cruise fell to his death off a cliff in New Zealand? Or Johnny Depp came to a sticky end in a car crash?

Jon Bon Jovi newest fatality of famous person bereavement hoax

Rumors increase from side to side social media networks nowadays about the supposed death of singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi after a fake ‘press release’ rapidly increase.MZ posted this twilight, “Bon Jovi’s rep says the singer is alive and well and performing at a charity event. He may be livin’ on a prayer, but he’s still livin’. “

CNN confirm the news with a tweet, by CNNshowbiz CNN Entertainment, which said, “Jon Bon Jovi is not dead — rep tells #CNN he’s alive, healthy and doing one more charity occasion tonight.”

A fake report post on a blog was quickly increased through Twitter. as well, thousands of ‘likes’ of the fake report show up on Facebook.

The falsified post appeared in a blog that calls itself “dailynewbloginternational” and stated, “Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi, Jr) was marked dead today after paramedics found him in a coma at his Empress Hotel, city and law enforcement of Asbury Park, NJ sources told The Times following World Christmas Tour presentation on The deceive Festival,North Beach Asbury Park.”

From this report, rumors were extract and spread the ‘news’ that Bon Jovi had stopped breathing and had suffered cardiac take into care

All through the day the fake report was retweeted a “whole bunch of times,” reported NJ.com.

Bon Jovi is, by far, not the first victim of a celebrity death hoax. A few weeks ago Will Smith was a victim of a death hoax. Over time many celebrity fake ‘reports’ have emerged on social networks. It is also not rare for recycled stories of fake deaths to appear swapping out the celebrity’s name.

Pregnant Kate Middleton doll lead to malware disease for AOL user

Take mind if you visit the main page of AOL UK today – a narrative about Kate Middleton being pregnant (or rather a doll of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge) has a spiteful sting in its tail.

The story, featured highly on AOL’s main webpage, points to a dissimilar website – MyDaily.co.uk – another part of the AOL media territory. The My Daily website uses a lawful piece of JavaScript code to “carousel” different adverts on the website. However, hackers have managed to breach security on the site and insert their own line of code. The code the cybercriminals have inject onto the webpage attempts to run malicious code from a third-party site.

Malicious hackers love to use high traffic websites. Think about it, quite than luring you to visit a site created by a hacker (in order to infect your computer) they can cooperation an obtainable popular website and simply wait for traffic to come their way. Always run up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer, and make sure that every webpage your computer visits is being scan for hateful code.