Oct 10, 2009

Twitters Security Nightmare

Gary Eckstein Internet 0 anti-virus, blacklisted sites, domain names, free url, google, internet security software, malware, spammers, top level domains, twitter

The 140 character limit in Twitter combined with its incredible success has been welcomed by phishers, spammers, Trojan and virus developers and other malicious content providers (we’ll call them ‘malware’ in this article). As most Twitter users know, URLs are typically shortened using URL shorteners such as Bit.ly (which also powers j.mp) and Tr.im (which [...]