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• Twitter users hit with typo-squatting phishing campaign

  08.02.2013

  In the wake of last week's compromise of 250,000 Twitter accounts comes another threat to Twitter users: phishing messages - both DMs and tweets - that lure in the curious by asking "Did you see this pic of you?" Appended to the message is a bit.ly shortened link that leads to a changing subdomain on hecro.ru, from which the victims are redirected to one of a number of spoofed Twitter login pages located on typosquat-style domains such as tivtter.com, iftwtter.com and iwltter.com.

• Twitter confirms hack compromised 250,000 user accounts

  02.02.2013

  Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens of some 250,000 Twitter users following a successful breach of a database containing user data.

• Twitter bug gives 3rd-party apps access to users' Direct Messages

  22.01.2013

  A Twitter bug allowed third-party applications to access Direct Messages of users who signed in to the apps by using their Twitter account, reported IOActive researcher Cesar Cerrudo.

• What makes a good information security professional?

  21.01.2013

  Information security is a very competitive industry, and one of the very few that kept doing fine even during the recession.

• Get ready for invited break-ins, malware-ridden apps and spoof attacks

  18.12.2012

  It’s that time of year again when, it seems, every technology vendor suddenly becomes clairvoyant with an insatiable urge to predict the battles we need to arm ourselves against.

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