I received a Twitter DM from one of the accounts that was a victim of Twitter phishing this weekend. Hey! I just got a FREE iphone from this website.. here http://helloiphones.com The culprit is a follower known to me, and not a random spam follower this time. Looks like some other people are experiencing the [...]
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Twitter Phishing Attack Screenshots
A Mashable post about the Twitter phishing attack going on makes the point that this is a “coming-of-age” for Twitter, in that “nobody phishes where there are no phish to catch.” Maybe so, but I’m annoyed nonetheless. Twitter sent out a tweet (if you’re following @Twitter) linking to a blog post about the phishing event. [...]
Various Predictions for 2009
These are the predictions I’ve seen in media/technology so far. Anyone have any others? From @themediaisdying tweet on Twitter: YOUR PREDICTIONS: EW, OK!, SEATTLE TIMES, MIAMI HERALD, BLENDER, EWEEK and COMPUTERWORLD will all not se e Christmas 2009. From cnet.com: Sony: Further reduction in PS3 pricing, Blu-Ray struggles to gain ground on DVDs with streaming [...]
The Next Windows ME?
A co-worker the other day suggested to me that Windows 7 was going to be the next Windows ME, because of the rush to market that seems to be going on. I would tend to believe the opposite; that Windows Vista is becoming the next Windows ME. However, I’m starting to become mildly skeptical of [...]
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DM Fail
Found this from the @mashable blog link: Twitter DMs That Went Public: DM Fail. Someone creating a “service” to feed off of misunderstanding of how Twitter syntax works to try to pick out some incriminating tidbits that people didn’t intend as a public post. My thought is that if they are incriminating, they are much [...]
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