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Posted Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:34PM on Twitter Blog
As Director of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, a big part of my job is focused on the detection and prevention of spam and abuse. A couple weeks ago, Biz explained how Twitter users were being victimized by phishing scams spread primarily thr… [ read more… ]
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- Twitter launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks on users of the popular microblogging service.
- Twitter sprawdza odnoniki w wiadomociach bezporednich
- via heise News
- W celu ochrony uytkownikw przed phishingiem serwis Twitter zaczyna filtrowa odnoniki umieszczane w bezporednich wiadomociach wysyanych midzy uytkownikami.
- Twitter lancia un nuovo servizio anti-phishing
- via oneWeb2.0
- Gli attacchi di phishing sono diventati, nel corso degli anni, sempre pi frequenti e pericolosi e hanno coinvolto in maniera piuttosto importante soprattutto il Web 2.0. Ai piani alti del noto servizio di microblogging Twitter, hanno di recent…
- Twitter Inspects Links To Prevent Spam, Abuse
- via How to Make Money Online | Affiliate Marketing Tutorial
- Clicking on links that different people send can often be a cross-your-fingers experience, considering that there are malicious tricksters, unknowing victims, and hijacked accounts to watch out for. So Twitter's attempting to make the experien…
- Twitter tackles phishing problem
- via Help Net Security - News
- In a bid to obstruct the phishing onslaught that has lately been targeting its users, Twitter has announced that it will rout the submitted direct messages through a new URL service called twt.tl, whe...
- Twitter to vet links with goal of curbing phishing attacks
- via Latest articles from SC Magazine US
- Twitter on Tuesday launched a new service designed to curb phishing links delivered in the microblogging site's direct messages and email notifications.
- Twitter now screening links to protect users
- via Technology News
- • After a spate of phishing scams and attacks, Twitter is cranking up safety for users by blocking all dubious links. Essentially it routes all links through Twitter’s filter and eliminates the bad ones before potential victims re…
- Twitter sprawdza odnoniki w wiadomociach bezporednich
- via heise Networks
- W celu ochrony uytkownikw przed phishingiem serwis Twitter zaczyna filtrowa odnoniki umieszczane w bezporednich wiadomociach wysyanych midzy uytkownikami.
- Twitter to implement phishing filter
- via The Hermes Project
- One of the scourges of Twitter is the phishing links you get in direct messages thanks to unsuspecting users having clicked on fraudulent links out there to dupe them.Twitter realises this and have announced plans to process all links posted o…
- Twitter to Save Us From Ourselves & Phishing; More Is Needed to Make Innovation Safe & Viable
- via Search-Internet Marketing
- It never ceases to amaze me how many high-tech industry elites get ensnared in every Twitter phishing attack. (See our November story 7 High-Tech Twitter Users Who Fell for Phishing Scams) This evening Twitter announced that a new program wi…
- Twitter to vet links with goal of curbing phishing attacks
- via Latest articles from SC Magazine US News
- Twitter on Tuesday launched a new service designed to curb phishing links delivered in the microblogging site's direct messages and email notifications.
- Twitter lanza twt.tl, su propio acortador de URL
- via Codigo Geek
- Cuando ya creia que no presentara un nuevo acortador de URL, Twitter se presenta con twt.tl su propio servicio, que por el momento solo sera utilizado en DM en busca de una seguridad contra ataques de scam y phishing como se vieron las ultimas…
- Twitter Adds Own Shortener Twt.tl To Combat Spam
- via TechXav
- In an effort to combat phishing and spam, which has been an unsolved issue for Twitter for the past years, the micro-blogging platform yesterday said in a blog post that they have rolled out its own URL shortener called Twt.tl to protect users…
- Bloomberg: Henry Blodget Is Now King Of The Blogosphere
- via Silicon Alley Insider
- Bloomberg has apparently anointed our very own Henry Blodget as "king of the blogosphere." Watch the video below. Read the rest of this story See Also:Yes, Silicon Alley Is Back!Jon Stewart Skullf#@ks The BlogosphereHow To Make An Awesome C…
- AOL Ad Sales Confusion Is A Boon For Yahoo (AOL, YHOO)
- via Silicon Alley Insider
- AOL ad sales are in quiet chaos thanks to January layoffs and a subsequent re-org that CFO Artie Minson says resulted in 80% of accounts switching hands. Analyst Douglas Anmuth of Barcalys Capital says this situation -- bad news for AOL -- is …
- Leaked Verizon Memo: "The iPad Is An Opportunity For VZW!" (AAPL, VZ, T)
- via Silicon Alley Insider
- Those wily folks at Engadget landed an internal Verizon memo about the iPad. In it, Verizon tells its employees that despite AT&T having the exclusive wireless rights to the device, "it's an opportunity for [Verizon Wireless]!" How so? Verizon…
- Social networks, financial firms getting used in phishing, brand abuse
- via SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News
- Social network names are increasingly being used by phishers and other attackers. But most sites fight back swiftly, according to MarkMonitor Inc.
- How To Erase Your Data So No One Can Ever Recover It
- via Silicon Alley Insider
- Read the rest of this story See Also:How To Use Google's New (Free) Photo-Editing Tool, PicnikHow To Build The Ultimate Stock ScreenerHow To Do A Product Recall The Right Way
- Facebook Isn't For Real Life Friends Anymore, Says Foursquare's Dennis Crowley
- via Silicon Alley Insider
- Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley isn't afraid of big bad Facebook. Read the rest of this story See Also:Foursquare Gives Businesses New Analytics Tools, Flirts With A Business ModelCONFIRMED: Facebook To Launch Foursquare-Killer In Apr…
- One Thing Bing Isn't Doing: Killing Google (MSFT, GOOG)
- via Silicon Alley Insider
- Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to gain share in the search market, thanks to organic growth, lots of advertising, and clever tricks like stuffing MSN.com full of links to Bing search queries. Read the rest of this story See Also:10 …
- Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener
- via Search Engine Optimization & Internet Marketing (SEO & SEM) Blog
- Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. Its a welcome move. Still, I was curious about any impacts this might have for good market…
- Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
- via Jim Duffy's articles
- Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
- Twitter announces proprietary link shortener as response to malicious URLs
- via The Latest From www.brafton.com
- As cyber criminals take advantage of popular link condensing services like bit.ly and is.gd to disguise their malicious content, Twitter has responded with a link shortener of its own, which will scan the real destination of shorthand links fo…
- Twitter Inspects Links To Prevent Spam, Abuse
- via jatiN mahindrA doT coM
- Clicking on links that different people send can often be a cross-your-fingers experience, considering that there are malicious tricksters, unknowing victims, and hijacked accounts to watch out for. So Twitter's attempting to make the experien…
- Tweet safe
- via Excite UK - digitaledge
- Twitter has launched a new service that will keep you safe from any beastly scammers
- Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
- via Infoworld News
- Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see som…
- Twitter modificar los tweets de sus usuarios como medida de seguridad
- via ITespresso.es-Actualidad
- La compaa cambiar los enlaces que se envan como mensajes directos para protegerse del spam y los renombrar con el estndar twt.tl.
- Twitter Adds Own Shortener Twt.tl To Combat Spam
- via TechXav
- In an effort to combat phishing and spam, which has been an unsolved issue for Twitter for the past years, the micro-blogging platform yesterday said in a blog post that they have rolled out its own URL shortener called Twt.tl to protect users…
- Twitter cracks down on spam with anti-phishing screening
- via Computerworld UK's Roundup
- Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
- Social networks, financial firms getting used in phishing, brand abuse
- via WhatIs: Enterprise IT news roundup
- Social network names are increasingly being used by phishers and other attackers. But most sites fight back swiftly, according to MarkMonitor Inc.
- The Braindead Techcast Ep. 21: Blogging for pennies. Ya thatll work.
- via SeanPAune.com
- Hey … want to literally work for pennies? Well, now you can! And it’s specifically for bloggers! Oh, happy, happy days! (really hope you getsarcasm…) If you live alone, feel free to go get a 3D TV! Oh, wait, you have a spous…
- Twitter sprawdza odnoniki w wiadomociach bezporednich
- via heise Security
- W celu ochrony uytkownikw przed phishingiem serwis Twitter zaczyna filtrowa odnoniki umieszczane w bezporednich wiadomociach wysyanych midzy uytkownikami.
- Noticias | Google Reader y Calendar, Twitter con acortador de URLs propio y mucho mas
- via ENLAZANDOWEB
- En los ltimos das se han conocido unas noticias de diferentes servicios que merecen ser comentadas. Empezamos por Google. Hace pocos minutos la propia Google anunciaba desde su blog en espaol la disponibilidad de la ciudad de Barcelona en 3D e…
- [Internet] Twitter met en place un systme de vrification des liens (TwitteRadar)
- via Wikio Blogs - A la une
- A la suite des diffrentes attaques de type lol, is this you des dernires semaines, Twitter a annonc sur son blog la mise en place dun outil de monitoring interne qui va permettre aux quipes en charge de la scurit de vrifier les liens partags p…
- Twitter blockiert bsartige Links
- via silicon.de
- Mit einem neuen Sicherheitsfeature will Twitter den Microblogging-Dienst zuverlssiger machen. Knftig sollen Links, die auf Phishing- oder Malware-Seiten fhren, blockiert werden.
- Twitter Routing All Links Through New Anti-Phishing Service
- via DuggBack - Latest Stories
- Today, were launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks.
- Twitter prft Links in Direktnachrichten
- via heise Security
- Verlinkungen in "direct messages" werden beim Mikroblogging-Dienst nun nach Phishing-Versuchen, Spam und Malware geprft, bevor sie an den Adressaten weitergereicht werden.
- Twitter fhrt Phishing-Filter ein
- via sl.portal
- (jp) - Twitter hat angekndigt, seinen Mikroblogging-Dienst knftig besser vor Phishing-Attacken zu schtzen. Das Unternehmen fhrt einen Filter ein, der alle versendeten Links untersucht. So will man schdliche Websites erkennen und blockieren…
- Twitter a de quoi faire peur
- via PoCarles.com
- Depuis plusieurs mois, Twitter m’inquite. Non, pas comme Facebook fait peur par son total manque de respect de la Privacy, cela n’a rien de comparable. Twitter ne me fait pas particulirement peur en tant qu’…
- Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
- via Security Weekly by Computerworld
- Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
- Twitter: hchste Zeit fr mehr Sicherheit
- via ZDNet.de Lab Notes: Der Blog für Tests & Technik
- Twitter hat gerade angekndigt, seinen Mikroblogging-Dienst knftig besser vor Phishing-Attacken zu schtzen. Das Unternehmen fhrt einen Filter ein, der alle versendeten Links untersucht. So will man schdliche Websites erkennen und blockieren, be…
- Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
- via social networks tag on Computerworld
- Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
- Ferramenta do Twitter visa combater ataques de phishing
- via PC WORLD
- Ideia checar os links contidos em post publicados pelos usurios para evitar golpes online e disseminao de pragas.
- Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
- via Techworld Australia News
- Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
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