Hasta La Gadget!

Hacking into systems and servers to play some harmless pranks isn’t anything new, but today Burger King’s official Twitter account was breached and the hackers appeared to be die-hard McDonald’s fans, because they ended up changing the page’s branding to the McDonald’s logo and name, and mentioned that Burger King “just got sold to McDonald’s because the Whopper flopped.”

Burger King’s Twitter account, which has almost 90,000 followers, was made to look like McDonald’s own Twitter feed, with a McDonald’s logo and all. The only difference was that the username remained unchanged. Many of the tweets beared the hashtag “#DFNCTSC”, which seem to suggest that the hackers behind this comical trick are a part of the Defonic Team Screen Name Club, who are best known for hacking into Paris Hilton’s phone.

The hackers continued to tweet for 30 minutes before the account was finally suspended for the time being. Tweets were filled with text, photos, and videos that made fun of Burger King and its employees, including a couple of tweets mentioning employees doing drugs in the bathroom. The rest of the tweets were pretty random and some didn’t really make sense.

Twitter has recently been a huge target for hackers, with over 250,000 passwords leaked from a hacker who broke into the service’s servers. This also isn’t the first time that verified accounts, and popular Twitter users have been targeted. Major League Baseball was recently hacked, as well as the New York Yankees account, which made fun of Derek Jeter.

UPDATE: We’ve received some stats about the hacking from Unmetric regarding the Twitter account. The number of followers that the account gained jumped from 83,000 to 110,000 within 60 minutes, and the hackers sent a total of 55 tweets before the account was eventually suspended, 33 of which were either replies or retweets. McDonald’s also chimed in on the Burger King hack, assuring users that they had nothing to do with the fiasco.

[via ABC News]

Burger King Twitter account hacked to show McDonald’s superiority [UPDATE] is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

The iOS 6 jailbreak is officially out and it’s had plenty of time to get into the hands of eager jailbreakers, specially 7 million of them. Now that the Evad3rs dev team has had some time to relax, one of the members was available to answer questions on Reddit today. Planetbeing, the hacker also behind the first jailbreak ever, discussed his thoughts on jailbreaking iOS 7.

When asked if iOS 7 may possibly be harder or more easier to jailbreak than iOS 6, Planetbeing says that “it’s hard to say,” since he’s not quite sure what Apple will do, but he guesses that the next major version of iOS will be harder to jailbreak, and while the time it takes to jailbreak each major iOS version has kept rising, Planetbeing really isn’t sure how long it might take to get iOS 7 exploited.

He continues by saying that, when iOS 7 eventually comes out, the dev team will study it and see what they can do with it. He says that you “can’t really plan on” things beforehand, since it’s so difficult to know what to expect. Planetbeing says that it’s all a “specialized game with a steep learning curve.”

As far as what Planetbeing does when he’s not hacking into Apple devices, he actually works at a web analytics company for his day job, and as far as his free time, he says that “if jailbreaking is no longer possible,” he would most likely play all those Steam games he bought on sale that he never gets around to playing.

Evad3rs member Planetbeing talks iOS 7 jailbreaking is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Jawbone has announced that a small number of accounts had been compromised by cyber-attacks. The company did not mention how many, but did use the word “limited” to describe the scope of the attack. In any case, some user data (email, password, address) may have been stolen,  but Jawbone doesn’t think that more than that was accessed. Note that the password information that was accessed was encrypted, and if Jawbone used a different encryption key for each account, it should be hard (or at least very long) for hackers to do anything at scale with them. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Instagram Competitor Molome Will Be Arriving On Windows Phone 8, Android 4.2.2 Update Arrives For Nexus 4 Owners,

If you use a Jambox, now might be a real good time to change your MyTalk password: Jawbone’s servers have been hacked, and a swathe of users have had their details swiped. More »

While hackers are usually notorious for breaking into databases and stealing personal information, some hackers simply breach into systems just for the fun of it. Case in point: someone (or possibly even a group) hacked their way into the KRTV affiliate of the Montana News Network and its CW station, prompting an emergency alert message warning viewers of an impending zombie apocalypse.

In several counties in Montana, KRTV says that the hackers broadcasted an emergency alert message that informed viewers that “dead bodies are rising from their graves,” and that the bodies were “attacking the living,” warning people not to “approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous.”

While the hackers used an alert system normally meant for weather emergencies, the network The network assures viewers that there actually isn’t any such emergency, and its engineers are investigating the situation to see what happened. Apparently, the message sparked four calls to local police to see if the zombie apocalypse was real.

It’s certainly an interesting way to hack into a news station, and from what we’ve been hearing about recently with Anonymous and other takedown hacker groups, it’s nice to take a break from that and have a laugh over what seems to be a completely-harmless hack, although we’re sure that KRTV officials and engineers will be working overtime to make their system more secure for the future.

[via FOX]

Hackers warn of zombie apocalypse in news station hack is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.