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Protect Twitter accounts from spam, phishing and other threats.

This latest Twitter security problem is NOT related to the service itself. Instead it seems that some internal draft documents were stolen by hacking an employee Google account.

The Twitter account belonging to venture capitalist and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki was hijacked yesterday and used to push malware to some 140,000 Twitter users. The attack (screenshot above) included a link to what purported to be a "sex tape video free download" linked to Gossip Girls star Leighton Meester but, after a series of clicks, the end result was a malicious Trojan.

Twitter spam bearing a worm virus is on the loose today trying to lure Twitter users into opening a malicious file attachment containing malware that could take over Windows-based machines, Symantec is warning.

It works through a Twitter message that arrives claiming your friends are inviting you to join them and to check the attachment -- which is a ZIP file --
to find out who, says Kevin Haley, director of Symantec's security response division. "It's a new social-engineering trick," he says, adding the payload is Ackantta.B, a variant on the Ackantta worm discovered in February that has been
used in e-mail spam attacks.

A fascinating look at the ongoing phishing attacks on Twitter. It does not look like they are stopping anytime soon. Check out the diagrams.

A detailed technical explanation of the StalkDaily worm. Twitter closed the hole quickly fortunately.

Article about TweepMe, the ethics, what it does and does not, how it works and does not work, the security risks.

Why you should be using two twitter passwords.

A patient transcription of a podcast between Citizen Group and Twitter API guy Alex Payne. Skip the intro nonsense and jump to the good bits.