Fri, Oct 7, 2011
As Twitter’s user base grows so does the malicious activity on the social networking site. Malicious links spread easily on Twitter as a result of the widespread use of URL shortening services due to its 140 character limit.
In January 2010, Twitter banned 370 passwords for being too obvious, including 123456. As of July 2011, the list has grown to 401 banned passwords. Some of the latest hacked celebrity Twitter accounts include Lady Gaga, Ashton Kutcher, and Kim Kardashian. On September 10, 2011 the NBC News Twitter account was hacked and the perpetrators tweeted that ground zero had been attacked. On September 25, 2011 the USA Today account was hacked.
Veracode created this infographic that depicts some of these most recent high profile Twitter hacks.
Sat, Jan 1, 2011
Let’s start off 2011 right by removing unnecessary third party apps from our social media accounts. You should have as few third party applications as possible accessing your social accounts, because the more third party apps you give permission to access your social accounts, the more vulnerable those accounts become. This blog post is a How To guide on removing third party apps from your Twitter account.
Fri, May 7, 2010
The latest phishing scam targeting Twitter users is in the form of an email message claiming to be from Twitter Support. The subject line of the fake email message starts off with the word Twit and is followed by a set of numbers. The email message claims that you have some number of “unreaded” or delayed messages from Twitter, and provides a link to supposedly check your “unreaded” messages. But instead the link takes you to a malicious phishing website.
