Twitter is becoming a new playground for spammers and malware authors keen to target social networking users. Twitters security department have described the problem as a scam/phishing site rather than a virus problem.Hopefully it should be obvious from the opening page of legalese banning staff from Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Microsoft and Google, that something odd is afoot even before it starts to quiz you for personal information. Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.”]
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