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 identifying the [...]

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 [...]

Surfing to freetwittervideoscom might be a very BAD idea…

Another scam site with a very bad T.O.S. (Terms of Service) – “THROUGH THE SITE” means TWITTERVIDEOS<>COM and they are absolutely NOT TAKING ANY RESPONSIBILITY for files that you may DOWNLOAD from their site!  
Be sure to read this section of their T.O.S. closely:

Not even a FAQ exists, and a Whois look-up reveals that [...]

The Twitter @softwaregenius bot script that links to TOXIC URLs

All Twitter status updates are currently FROZEN in TIME!

After tweeting to myself for an hour or longer this morning (approximately 11 am EDT),  I am able to post tweets but unable to see tweets from those that I follow. I thought NOW would be a good time to update the Tekblog.  As many of you may recall, I’ve had a very bad case [...]

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