VIDEO: Mark Zuckerberg, Kylie Jenner, Jack Black – hacked!

Mark Zuckerberg had his Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest accounts hacked over the weekend.
And he wasn’t the only one – actor Jack Black and Kylie Jenner also suffered as the result of social networking accounts being compromised.
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WordPress users warned of plugin flaw being exploited in porn spam attack

Tens of thousands of websites running WordPress are thought to have been put at risk from a vulnerability that hackers have been actively exploiting to inject pornographic spam messages.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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TeamViewer denies hack, as users claim computers remotely hijacked

TeamViewer users are claiming that their computers have been hijacked by malicious hackers, their PayPal and other banking accounts emptied, their webmail accessed, and malicious software installed.
What on earth is going on?
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