If you get a direct message on Twitter looking like this:
Lol. this you?? http://divinelink.net/?rid=http://twitter.verify.bzpharma.net/login
Do not click on the link!
The attack appears to be utilizing the SmartName domain parking service, which allows redirects to third-party sites. The DMs appear in the form of a legit URL, followed by something to the effect of ?rid=http://twitter.verify.bzpharma.net/login in the [...]
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Ever wondered how much your Twitter account is worth? Tweeter Value can put a price tag on your Twitter account. It is more for fun than for anything else. But we all like a bit of fun, don’t we?
What exactly does Tweeter Value do? It puts a theoretical value on a Twitter account, and that’s [...]
A couple of weeks ago TwitPic finally got a real competitor. It’s a new free photo sharing service for Twitter called TweetPhoto. And it will, as they say, significantly improve photo sharing experience on Twitter.
Similar to TwitPic, TweetPhoto users can easily upload photos and TweetPhoto will automatically publish those photos and turn them into tweets [...]
Yesterday, Twitter was hit by a really nasty exploit. A worm, apparently originating from the owners of the website StalkDaily.com (even tho they claim they did not do it, do not visit this site for the time being), that can infect users simply by visiting a friend’s profile on Twitter.com.
Twitter said they have taken [...]
Spam on Twitter is becoming a bigger problem day by day. I’m sure you’re used to get a notification email when someone follows you, but when you get it multiple times a day from same account, then you know something fishy is going on.
As a blogger Louis Gray reports in his blog post The Newest [...]
