Phishing for Twitter
Twitter is now one more target for phishing attacks: Obama, Spears, O’Reilly et. at. hacked; http://is.gd/eDa3
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 10:04 on 6. January 2009 Permalink |
ClickZ: “According to Twitter the hacked accounts were unrelated to a phishing attack that happened over the weekend. That incident was a straightforward scam that used e-mails presenting themselves as Twitter direct messages to get users to divulge password information.”
RWW: “This can’t be good for Twitter. It will be good for the people calling for more secure, standards based authentication on Twitter and elsewhere around the web. … What major brand will be excited to sign up for the service now? Who would pay, even, to be put at such risk?“