Massive Twitter Phish Attack Hits Ministers, Banks

Scammers have yet again used the death of mass-murderer Osama Bin Laden to trick Twitter users into revealing their account details.According to security software maker Websense, scammers are using a hoax which claims that Osama...

Micro-blogging site Twitter now says the JavaScript worm that caused havoc on its web platform today has now been patched. The exploit, which utilised a technique known as 'cross-site scripting' (XSS) could be used to redirect...

Twitter has been testing its own automatic URL shortening service, expected to be released later this summer.CNet reports that Twitter is currently testing the new service, called t.co, with the aim of providing a similar...

Micro blogging giant Twitter has announced that the company has successfully reduced the level of spam in the service to an impressive one percent from the previous figure of 11 percent, which was reported in August last...

Twitter has become the latest social networking platform to become the victim of a sophisticated phishing attack that has resulted in several Twitter accounts being hacked and being controlled by an automated software which is...

Intel's UK Twitter feed has been, rather embarrassingly hacked, the feed itself says. And it looks like it's been delivering the "this you" phishing scam that's been bouncing about the short-message whittering service. In fact,...

A phishing attack apparently originating from China has hit Twitter users all over the world as genuine accounts from the popular micro blogging websites are being sought by criminals to roll out spamming campaigns that involve...

Easy-to-crack passwords are allowing cybercriminals to infiltrate online users’ accounts with tremendous ease, causing stern concerns for the website owners, and this time microblogging phenomenon Twitter has been faced...

Thousands of Twitter users are being locked out of their accounts until they manually reset their passwords. The microblogging site is swamped with users complaining that their details have been reset and they are receiving the...

If there's two things that the discovery of tens of thousands of compromised email accounts showed us is that phishing is unfortunately common and that having one password that gives access to a number of services is nothing...

The Ministry of Defence has issued a document that spells out the usage by British troops of social networking websites like Twitter or Facebook to inform a global audience about their activities. The 13-page document (PDF) is...

A large number of Facebook users have become the victim of a new phishing attack which attempted to steal their personal records by directing them to a malicious website.  A number of emails which apparently seemed to...

According to the latest security report published by Symantec, a leading provider of computer security solutions, the frequency of malware attacks in 2008 increased by a striking 200 percent.  In its report titled...

The nasty Conficker worm, which didn’t inflict troubles to PC users on April 1 as announced, is stirring again with a new variant that has begun updating the infected machines with a mysterious data package.  The...

The BBC has uncovered an underworld market where UK credit card details are routinely stolen by Indian call centre workers and sold to criminal gangs. The discovery, made by an undercover BBC News investigation, showed that...