Comments on: Phishing for Twitter http://wir-sprechen-online.com/2009/01/06/phishing-for-twitter/ Sun, 27 May 2012 05:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gerrit Eicker http://wir-sprechen-online.com/2009/01/06/phishing-for-twitter/#comment-1243 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:04:04 +0000 http://wir-sprechen-online.com/?p=3755#comment-1243 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?“

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