Sometimes you can’t trust every link on your Twitter timeline. Yesterday, security researcher Stefan Esser tweeted the following: Esser is the researcher who developed the Antid0te ASLR utility for jailbroken iPhones. If he helps to protect jailbroken iPhones, why would he want to infect me? If I didn’t deal with malware on a regular basis, I Read more…
After writing my last blog about the Epsilon breach and discussing how criminals may use those stolen email addresses to go phishing, I was thinking about how imbedded links can be the downfall of many a pc. I mean, we use them all the time right? I click on links everyday in social networking sites, Read more…
Tags: malicious sites, malware, shortened URLs, URL shortening services
I’ve only just started using Twitter in the last year and I must confess I didn’t get it at first, but now I do, and I find it valuable for sharing information and keeping up with what’s going on. However like any social networking site you need to be “Twitter Safe”, so here are a Read more…
Tags: shortened URLs, social networking, tweet, twitter
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