Fox, NBC and USA Today – Who’s the Next Script Kiddies Target?   Social Media Safety and Risk Management  By Karen Masullo, EVP Social Media, Firestorm Summary: USAToday’s Twitter account became the latest victim of the hacking group Script Kiddies: Unlike previous Script Kiddies hacks however, the USA Today effort apparently did not include tweets with fake news stories. Instead, the group boasted about previous hacks and encouraged people to "like" them on Facebook. You may recall we discussed a breach of the FoxNews Politics Twitter account by the Script Kiddies Hackers over the 2011 July 4th weekend. Next, NBC News found itself victim of a tasteless attack via its Twitter account on September 9th of this year. The NBC News hacks read: "Breaking News! Ground Zero has just been attacked. Flight 5736 has crashed into the site, suspected hijacking…more as the story deve...

Security Hacks - Fox Hack   Fox Hack by Script Kiddies creates panic July 4th breaks with frightening "news" After a hack of the @foxnewspolitics account on Twitter, two messages, then deleted from the feed, the first taking credit for a hack and another directed at Anonymous read:        The account then posted a message stating "Just regained full access to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th" posted at approximately 2 AM Eastern. The real hack began moments later with this disturbing post: "@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead" This message was then re-tweeted hundreds of times, many as recent as 2 minutes ago, 9:30 AM Eastern:      Both Huffington Post and Mashable were quickly aware of the hack, and HuffPost captured a Script Kiddies logo cha...