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Phishing hits Twitter
D' Technology Weblog —
... Twitter Blog reports “we immediately reported the offending domain and warned our friends at Facebook. The site is now on OpenDNS’ and Google’s reported phishing lists.” ...
Twitter Scam Proves Early Adopters Don’t Know Everything
LIVEdigitally —
... that the “higher ups” on the early adoption wave tend to look down upon the rest. Sometimes the smugness is so thick it’s as if those users who don’t microblog are busy using whiteout on their monitors while wiping a lingering trail of drool off their chin.
Over the weekend, it turns out someone tried to “phish” Twitter users, and achieved enough success to warrant widespread coverage by bloggers and online media. The official Twitter blog stated:
It looks as though this particular ...
Twitter and Facebook hit by phishing attacks
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Some Twitter users were lured into giving away their passwords in a phishing attack over the weekend. Lots of us received direct messages (DMs) that said "hey! check out this funny blog about you..." The link took you to a site that copied Twitter's front page. However, the trick was soon spotted, and the "don't click" warnings rapidly became much more annoying than the phishing messages. Twitter dealt with the problem, its blog says, by reporting the offending domain. It also found a similar fake page for Facebook. The attack could be by someone possibly ...
Twitter Warns Users About Phishing Scam
mocoNews —
... This weekend, Twitter admitted that it is the most recent target of a phishing scam, and warned users to be wary of messages that redirect them to a look-alike sites and ask them to login using their username and password. Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone wrote on the company's blog: "We've identified a phishing scam directed at Twitter users and we don't want you to get tricked into giving your password to a scammer." The scams being sent out by email look like email notifications you might receive when you get a direct message, and say something ...
Phishing Scams Prey on Twitter's Weaknesses
Wired: Epicenter —
... changing your Twitter password. It appears that all the scammers did with the captured login info is send more direct messages, furthering the scam. If you’ve been suckered, Twitter will reset your password for you. ...
Phishing For Tweets
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Jan 5, 2009 11:32 AM [image] A new phishing scam that targets Twitter users is a backhanded compliment to the messaging service. Twitter hit a new milestone this Saturday when the company posted a warning that phishers were targeting Twitter users. You know you've arrived when scammers decide your platform is big enough to be worth trying to spoof. The scam relied on an e-mail message that claimed to come from Twitter. The message included a link to a false log-in page that would let the scammers capture the Twitter user's ID. The scammers could then use the ID to log on as ...
Twitter Phishing Scam Takes New Turn With Promises of iPhone
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
A phishing campaign targeting Twitter has morphed, according to researchers at Sophos. Phishers are now using accounts compromised in the initial campaign launched over the weekend to snare Twitter users lured by the promise of an iPhone. Phishers are hooking more and more Twitter users in campaigns to steal their account data, according to security researchers. The initial phishing attack reported over the weekend has expanded, with spammers now using compromised accounts to ...
Fox News' Twitter Hacked, Says Bill O'Reilly Is Gay
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Not sure if this was related to this weekend's Twitter phishing scam, or just a random act of Internet vandalism, but Fox News' Twitter account ...
Either Fox News Had Their Twitter Account Hacked, Or Bill O’Reilly Is Gay (Or Both)
TechCrunch —
... My guess is this has nothing to do with the phishing attacks that started on Twitter a couple of days ago. But a few minutes ago the official ...
Twitter Users Hit By Phishing Scam
AppScout —
... "The email says something like, 'hey! check out this funny blog about you...' and provides a link. That link redirects to a site masquerading as the Twitter front page," according to a Saturday blog post from Twitter. ...
Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Too
Gawker: valleywag —
... Well, yes, in fact — everyone who doesn't click on crazy emails that claim to be from Twitter but aren't. Twitter is the latest target of a "phishing" campaign — an attempt by hackers to gather usernames and passwords through deceptive means. Typically, the victim receives an email that directs them to a website where they're asked to log in. The website is controlled by hackers who then use the credentials to take over an account. ...
Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama
Gawker: valleywag —
... Well, yes, in fact — everyone who doesn't click on crazy emails that claim to be from Twitter but aren't. Twitter is the latest target of a "phishing" campaign — an attempt by hackers to gather usernames and passwords through deceptive means. ...
Twitter hit by phishing scam
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... A word to the wise for Twitter users: Beware of direct messages asking that you click a link and enter your login info. The official Twitter blog has details about the new phishing scam, which reached critical mass over the weekend and tries to lure users into entering their user IDs and passwords into an authentic-looking Twitter login page. Here's how it works: You'll get a DM (direct message) from one of your Twitter followers that says something along the lines of, "hey! check out this funny blog about you…", plus a link to a Web page. Click the link, and you'll end up at ...
Twitter: Gone Phishing? No, Obama, Britney, Fox and Facebook hacked
VentureBeat —
Big Celebs Hit By Twitter Phishing Attack
WebProNews Feed —
... Careful that you don't join Obama, Spears Twitter users, take heed: now might be an excellent time to check your Twitter posts for embarrassing messages, and no, we're not talking whatever might have resulted from your New Year's Eve celebrations. Instead, such messages seem to be the result of a new and almost astonishingly effective phishing scam. With the words "safety first" in mind, here's what Biz Stone, Twitter's cofounder, suggested on the corporate blog : "If you receive a direct message or a direct message email notification that redirects to what looks like ...
Twitter Hack Explained: How Britney And Fox News Lost Control
Silicon Alley Insider —
... The issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend. These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can't remember or get stuck. We considered this a very serious breach of security and immediately took the support tools offline. We'll put them back only when they're safe and secure. ...
Twitter Hack: How It Happened and What's Being Done
Today @ PC World —
... over the weekend. At the same time, a phishing scam is trying to trick regular users into handing over their passwords and compromising their profiles. Twitter Hack: Celebrity Targets First, the freshest set of hacks: Someone managed to crack the passwords to nearly three dozen high-profile Twitter accounts in the hours leading up to Monday morning. The official accounts for ...
Security Issues Plague Twitter
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere —
... style here are three of the security issues Twitter is facing.
People are giving out their passwords to use third-party tools.
Phising attacks are trying to get people to click on links that take them to websites that try and steal their Twitter passwords.
Twitter was hacked and 33 major Twitter accounts were made to post fake tweets.
Twitter recently addressed all three of these issues in two posts: one called Monday Morning Madness and one called Gone Phising.
Twitter says they do plan to add OAuth which will help with people that want ...
You're Safe with Twellow
WebProNews Feed —
... That Includes Your Password Twitter co-founder Biz Stone recently talked about some phishing issues going on with Twitter on its official blog. "If you receive a direct message or a direct message email notification that redirects to what looks like Twitter.com don't sign in," warned Stone. "Look closely at the URL because it could be a scam." Doug ...
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Twitter security: There's still a lot of work to do
Webware.com —
... But it's Alex Payne, one of Twitter's most vocal security champions, who earlier this year posted a message on his blog after Twitter accounts were "hacked" earlier this year highlighting Twitter's security flaws. ...
Something Phishy is Going on Twitter
Technologizer —
... I’m not sure how the phisher who’s doing this is tweeting from other folks’ accounts–it could be a known Twitter vulnerability, or one that nobody knew about until now. I’d love to hear Twitter explain what it’s doing about security other than telling folks to tread carefully. ...
