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[Software news] » Twitter Starts Fighting Malicious Links Via New Service: As Director of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, Del Harvey, explained, the team focuses on fighting spam and abuse, but it can detect a malicious link only after said malicious link has already been posted to Twitter. So to better fight spam, scams and abuse, Twitter launched a new service that detects malicious links before being posted to Twitter.

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[Computerworld Philippines] Computerworld Philippines :: Mobile & Wireless Networks Security ...: Phishing scams on Twitter usually involve attackers trying to obtain the login credentials of Twitter users, and then sending spam messages from the stolen accounts in a bid to make money, Twitter said on its blog last month. Twitter also fights phishing scams by watching for affected accounts and resetting passwords, it said.

[I'm Ben] Twitter Fights Phishing, Malware With Link Scanning Service: Twitter Fights Phishing, Malware With Link Scanning Service. 1 views. Twitter has announced it will begin scanning links posted by users to thwart phishing attacks and the spread of malware on the site. - Twitter has announced plans to route all links through a scanner in a bid to boost security and weed out malicious activity. The move follows a partnership announced in November between URL shortening service Bit.ly and security companies VeriSign, Websense and Sophos. ...

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[Socialmedia] Socialmedia » Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing: Bit.ly is Twitter's default link-shortening service. Another URL-shortening service, Tr.im does not specify how or if it monitors for phishing attacks, .

[UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping] Twitter Targets Phishing Scams | UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews ...: In a previous blog posting, Twitter noted that the most wide-spread attacks on its site involved scammers attempting to gain the log in credentials of users, before sending spam messages from the hacked accounts in an attempt to make money.

[Followforward.com] Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing « Followforward.com: DMs will now be routed through Twitter's anti-phishing service to “detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links,” Del Harvey, director of Twitter's trust and safety team, wrote in a recent blog post. After Twitter has approved a link, it will be delivered .

[Innovation] Twitter Steps Up the Fight Against Spam and Scams | Dan's FC Blog ...: The fight against spam is a consistent one for the Twitter team, but recently, phishing scams have started gaining in popularity. Spread mostly through direct messages (or email notifications about those messages), these scams offer a malignant link that, when clicked, can result in a whole mess of headaches for the user.

[Hack In The Box] Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing :: Hack In The Box ...: The new security measures will focus on Twitter direct messages (DMs) -- private tweets addressed to a specific user -- and corresponding e-mail notifications. Twitter believes DMs are the primary source of Twitter-based phishing attacks, and has not yet announced any plans to extend the new service to regular Twitter messages.

[Arif's Blog] Twitter aims to filter out malicious links | Arif's Blog: Twitter aims to filter out malicious links. Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.

[Best Spyware Removal Blog] Twitter fights back against spam, phishing, and other malicious links: In a move that should be welcomed by many users, Twitter has announced that it is introducing a new feature to combat the many malicious and malware URLs that are distributed via the micro-blogging site. In a blog entry posted by Del ...

[Software news] » IE8: Safest Browser in the Internet Explorer Range: In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution. Our investigation so far has shown that Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are not affected, and that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, and Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable,”

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