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Hackers hijack Obama's, Britney's Twitter accounts Hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities and organizations, including those belonging to President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Fox News, early on Monday. With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet. 11 in China sentenced for software piracy A court in Shenzhen, China, sentenced 11 members of a software counterfeiting operation Wednesday, with the defendants getting between one and a half and six and half years in prison, according to Microsoft. Microsoft: MD5 hack poses no major threats to users Microsoft said the disclosure that researchers have found a way to spoof the digital certificates that secure many Web sites doesn't significantly increase the dangers faced by Internet users. Researchers hack VeriSign's SSL scheme for securing Web sites An international team of security researchers said it has devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to prove that secure Web sites are what they claim to be.