Tech highlights from December 2009

Twitter hack claimed by Iranian group The hack that occurred on Twitter itself is significant beyond any wider political motives. It shows that what is the world’s fastest growing communication network is rather insecure. Being able to change the DNS records of a website means that rather than simply redirecting users to a vanity page [...]

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Tweeterfast, Tweeterfollow, Twtkingz — The never-ending Twitter scam…

I’ve been following the Tweeterfollow musical domain saga since late September 2009.  The theme never changes.  I’ve also written about their scam/phishing/twitter account hijackings here. Yesterday the Tweeterfollow (AKA: TF) domain push on Twitter was via Twtxtreme.info (currently disabled) using short url services tinyURL and retwt.me.  Today it looks like TF is promoting twtkingz.info via [...]

FacebookAgent is a Trojan Dropper

There has been chattering the past few days about unknown rogue software available for download on the Internet that lets you view private Facebook profiles. I can assure you that this new software called FacebookAgent is old news wagging a new wrapper. This is not just another scam! This rogue application also has a back [...]

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