Information Madness

In the world of micro-blogging Twitter is faster growing site. But this site drop behind against many other internet services in term of tool introduction for security purpose. This site did not do enough work for the security of the account of its users. Hacker find twitter new place of heaven. This prove last days when someone hack the account of ‘Fox News’ from the twitter and display the fake news of the death of US president Barack Obama’s Death on the Independence day of America.

But it is not new thing that account of Twitter is hijacked. Fake Tweets about Obama became headlines earlier all over the world.

According to the admin of ‘Fox News’ that they did not know that how hacker take control of their twitter account, but the thing which disturbing them is that Twitter team take almost five hour to bring back the control of their account from the hackers. Well Secret Services is already investigating this gloomy incident.

According to a professor of the Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management that security become the serious problem now for Twitter and this is the time when Twitter need to make commitment to resolve its security issues on priority basis.

On Twitter users are allowed to communicate with their desire site by a common unscrambled connection, this thing makes twitter account a heaven for the hackers. According to some security experts that attack like on Fox News can easily defend by using two-factor authentication tech to the accounts. This system is already adopted by social networking king ‘Facebook’ and Google Inc.