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August 24, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:34 PM/CST

Twitter Joins Mandatory HTTPS Club

Twitter will begin rolling out HTTPS by default to users to protect users from session hijacking

August 20, 2011

Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:43 PM/CST

Internet Users Posting Info that Helps Cyber-Crooks

Users are often providing information that gives cyber-criminals the information they need to hijack accounts, according to a recent BullGuard survey.

March 2, 2011

Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:30 PM/CST

Twitter, Spam and User Behavior

In a report, Barracuda Networks takes a look at the behavior of Twitter users, and the role reputation can be used to fight spam.

May 20, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:29 PM/CST

Twitter Attack Pushes Banking Trojan

Attackers are spamming out malicious links on Twitter that can infect users with a banking Trojan.

May 18, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:09 PM/CST

Twitter Botnet Do-It-Yourself Tool Surfaces

Security researchers found a DIY tool for creating a Twitter botnet, yet another example of attackers using untraditional methods of command and control.

May 10, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010 5:12 PM/CST

Facebook, Twitter Battle Security Woes

Facebook board member Jim Breyer's account was abused over the weekend of May 8 to send out malicious links. But Facebook was not alone in experiencing social networking security woes in the last 36 hours. A bug was also found affecting Twitter users.

April 1, 2010

Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:16 AM/CST

Do URL Shorteners Get a Bad Rap?

The growth of Twitter has coincided with warnings about the supposed riskiness of shortened URLs. But just how much of the discussion is FUD? More than a little, according to a researcher at Zscaler.

March 19, 2010

Friday, March 19, 2010 11:40 AM/CST

Free Twitter Anti-spam Service Launched

A Ph.D. student from the University of California-Santa Barbara has developed a free service that attempts to identify the malicious accounts behind the rise of spam on Twitter.

February 26, 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010 12:37 PM/CST

Twitter Phishing Scammers Have Busy Week

A series of phishing attacks have been hitting Twitter users this week, and have snagged at least two prominent British politicians.

Friday, February 26, 2010 6:52 AM/CST

Social Networking Risks Reduced by Frequency, Vigilance

Abandoned or unmanaged social networking accounts have become a major point of risk related to the applications.

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