She may very well be the name associated with more spam, virus and hack attacks than anyone else in history. Yes, step aside Paris, Angelina and Bill, my guess is that the name that hackers choose to exploit for their own ends more than any other is Britney Spears.
In a tasteless stunt that was seen by her two million followers earlier today, a hacker managed to post the following message to Britney Spears’s Twitter stream earlier today:
Britney has passed today. It is a sad day for everyone. More news to come.
Interestingly, the fake story of Britney’s death was posted to her Twitter followers via the TwitPic service, which automatically forwards messages to the associated Twitter account. There are a number of ways in which you can post a message on TwitPic – which is then echoed on Twitter – including logging on to the service or sending a picture to a unique email address.
It’s possible that that last method of updating TwitPic may be the…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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