Results for 'Twitter'
VideoBytes: Twitter gets hacked!
October 1, 2020 - Hello dear readers, and welcome to the latest and greatest from VideoBytes: a brand new, video feature that we announced just...
Coordinated Twitter attack rakes in 100 grand
July 16, 2020 - [Update 7/18/2020 Twitter released an update about the situation and their investigation on their blog.] [Update 8/2/2020 ZDNet published a timeline...
Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter mishaps invite typosquatters and scammers
February 19, 2020 - Former cybersecurity czar Rudy Giuliani has been targeted by typosquatters on Twitter, thanks to copious misspellings and other keyboarding errors made...
Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam
July 26, 2019 - A few days ago, Indian news portals were buzzing with tales of a well-worn shoeshine scam making its way into social...
Trolls abuse Twitter Lists to collate their targets
June 14, 2019 - I’ve been using Twitter for more than a decade. And one of its features that I find valuable is Lists. Turns...
Flaw in Twitter form may have been abused by nation states
December 19, 2018 - Twitter announced in a blog post on Monday that they discovered and addressed a security flaw on one of their support forms. The...
Information operations on Twitter: new data released on election tampering
October 18, 2018 - Back in April, we talked about the wealth of options available to Russian hackers and others launching social engineering campaigns, whether...
A month of giveaway spam on Twitter
September 19, 2018 - We’ve observed a low level spam campaign working its way through Twitter, with just under 2,000 posts visible on public search...
Twitter security snafu: change your passwords
May 4, 2018 - If you’re logging into Twitter after having been AWOL for a day or two, you’ll likely be seeing one of these...
“Who visits your Twitter profile” spam app brings week of chaos
January 23, 2018 - Twitter spam has been around forever, and rogue apps asking for installs in return for a cool feature (to be more...
