davidh
July 12th, 2010, 06:59 PM
Twitter Catches Cybercriminals and Google Foots The Bill
Barbara Hernandez, PC World
Google is paying for research to shut down spammers on . . . Twitter and Facebook?
Lee said that most of the spammers pretend to be (surprise!) college-age females from California and (shock!) target men. Why is it so prevalent on social network sites? Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are extremely vulnerable to phishing, because users tent to trust their social networks more and due to the widespread use of URL shorteners.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200791/twitter_catches_cybercriminals_and_google_foots_th e_bill.html?tk=hp_new
:eek: :D
Barbara Hernandez, PC World
Google is paying for research to shut down spammers on . . . Twitter and Facebook?
Lee said that most of the spammers pretend to be (surprise!) college-age females from California and (shock!) target men. Why is it so prevalent on social network sites? Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are extremely vulnerable to phishing, because users tent to trust their social networks more and due to the widespread use of URL shorteners.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200791/twitter_catches_cybercriminals_and_google_foots_th e_bill.html?tk=hp_new
:eek: :D