From the category archives:

Twitter Spam

Why People You Trust Sometimes Tweet Unsafe Links

August 3, 2010

At least once a week or so, we get a tweet from someone saying we have shared a site that their browser is warning them about. But when Google has even reported Google.com for being unsafe, you know things are in pretty bad shape. We try very hard to avoid sharing links that could be [...]

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Some Twitter spammers got caught out by our name change

June 27, 2010

UPDATE: Twitter has finally informed me they are looking into this issue: If you see anyone’s tweets beginning with “Tweetsmarter: ” please report them for spam. Do NOT report someone simple for including @Tweetsmarter. It’s only tweets that do NOT use the “@” and start with exactly the username followed by “: ” that are [...]

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How cyber-criminals are breaking through Twitter’s defenses

June 5, 2010

Cyber-criminals are trying sophisticated attacks: Trick Twitter into sending you a valid email (or watch for when they do) and then send out their own identical but fake emails. What happened this weekend is a variation on techniques cyber criminals have tried before. They provoked Twitter into sending out emails, and then sent their own, [...]

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