F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hyponnen reports that more than 1,000 Twitter accounts were recently hacked during a 12-hour period, with all of them adding the message, "Hacked by Turkish Hackers." "Hyponnen said that, although the exploit mechanism is unclear, most of the compromised accounts... 'seem to belong to Israeli Twitter users,'" according to Infosecurity. "Infosecurity notes that the Twitter hacking methodology appears to be the same as a rash of Facebook attacks identified by fellow IT security vendor AVG around two weeks ago when its research team revealed that a rash of 'political hacktivism' was appearing," the article states.

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