The hack attack was perfectly timed to make the NBC Nightly News, where anchor Brian Williams read a from the company. He said the network's Twitter account had been hacked and that NBC was working to correct the situation. He also apologized for the scare "that could have been caused by such a reckless and irresponsible act."

It appears that the Twitter account, which has 130,000 followers, was compromised through a spear phishing attack. Only three people know the password to the account. One of them, NBC Social Media Director Ryan Osborn, admitted to MSNBC that he recently clicked on an attachment in an email from someone he didn't know.

Prior to the NBC attack, the Script Kiddies were known for their Fourth of July sortie this year on the Twitter account of Fox News. In that foray, they posted a series of bogus tweets announcing that President Barack Obama had been .

While the Script Kiddies were doing their latest mischief, another group of Internet rogues, , began drumming up support for a phone calling campaign on the federal government protesting U.S. foreign policy. The group has posted to the Internet the phone numbers of the White House, U.S. embassies in Libya and Afghanistan, the FBI and CIA and is exhorting its followers to call the numbers and leave the message: "Dear USA, your 9/11 is our 24/7. Sincerely. [a country that has been bombed/attacked by USA]."

The group that "mass phone calls will have a huge effect on the business." That seems to be a dubious assertion, since much of the federal government is closed on Sundays so there's little business to disrupt.