Showing posts with label Twitter phishing solution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter phishing solution. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Twitter hit by phishing attempt

The microblogging social website Twitter was hit Tuesday by a phishing attack which is supoosed to steal and gather the users login information; therefore it is recommandable for those who use Twitter to change the possword as soon as possible. The Twitter managing team re-set the password of a certain number of users as a consequence of the attack. Biz Stone, one of the social site co-founder warned in January that a couple of websites will try to masquerade as Twitter in order to gain users' sensitive information. As an example one of the scam URL you might receive will look like: http://twitter.access-logins.com/ (do not log on). The original and safe address is the well-known http://twitter.com/ .

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