Twitter’s a Mess: First the DDOS, Now Koobface Returns

Posted by webalong | media, social media, technology | Wednesday 12 August 2009 1:41 am

Twitter A Victim Once Again

Twitter’s a Mess: First the DDOS, Now Koobface Returns.

I haven’t laid too heavy on the tweeting.  It is a challenge to get beyond microblogging.  At least it’s challenging for me, so I’m looking into “longer forms”. <g>

Regarding Koobface:  with this and other worms, a buyer beware should ring from every email received.  We click without thinking–I know this from experience.  One thing that Outlook has is a review of the URL–in emails Outlook will highlight the email if the href is different than the text which is enclosed by the <a> tag.  I’m not sure about the proliferation of these shortened url’s–I’ve seen various scripts to show the fully resolved url, but I click through these links.

What is certain is that miscreants would love to bury the big tweety bird!

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