Posts Tagged ‘Twitter

  So, facebook released the (public beta) of the “lite” version of their service, last week. Some think that facebook lite is just a response to twitter’s popularity and the trend of real-time web. Especially with facebook acquiring friendfeed and then releasing the code in a open source project called tornado. Still, there is more [...]

Although most are trying to figure out what exactly the Web  3.0 will be, I like to take a moment and show you what the business model of Web 2.0 was and what is happing today with web a.k.a Web 2.5. The best way to explain what was the predominant business plan of the Web [...]

I was asked by mjhb in twitter, how to get Spaz (a open-source desktop Twitter client), working with a local copy of laconi.ca. Here is how: Go to Preferences Tab (First tab going from right to left). The click on the Account Information section, so the options are showed (as we see in the image [...]

Here is the video of Twitter being hacked by GMZ: Apparently GMZ (the hacker and a 18 student) used a dictionary attack to login in into a Admin account. How was this possible? Well if you try to log in into Gmail or Hotmail and failed for x number of time, then you are ask [...]

Earlier I posted about the reports of the phishing attacks against Twitter. Apparently high profile accounts i.e Obama, Britney where hacked. The good side is that the Hackers have a sense of humor, the bad thing is that they have been fixed.  It looks like the vector of attack here some tools that where used [...]

Phishing Tweets

In: Blogging|Web

5 Jan 2009

According to the Twitter blog, phishing scams targeted at Twitter users, have appeared. If you wonder what scammers are trying to achieve with it? Well think about it, there is a lot of value in Twitter account. Maybe not on the average Joe Twitter user, however there are a lot of high profile Twitter users, [...]


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