Case Study: Political Hacking
The reasons for hacking are pretty varied. Real monetary rewards for hacking have been escalating in the past few years. Social and political hacktivism has also been on the upswing. In a recent case of political hacktivism, the Twitter account of Fox News Politics (foxnewspolitics) was hacked by the group named Script Kiddies.
On July 4, 2011, a tweet went out: “Breaking News: President @BarakObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It’s a sad 4th for #america #obamadead RIP” (See the news article from the Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/04/hacking-twitter-feed-fix-news.)
Considering that Fox News leans right and to the conservative Republican Party in the United States, ...
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