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Thursday, 05 November 2009 03:44

Beware the phantom tweet

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Over the past few days, twitter users have been receiving DM messages supposedly from friends linking to a Twitter login page.  DON'T DO IT!

This morning, this writer received a DM (Direct Message) purportedly from a well-known telecommunications organisation in Australia (whom I do indeed follow):

i found y0u http: // videos . twitter . shjjiwe . com / ?cw0c0s2uq

Spaces have been inserted to deliberately 'break' the URL.

Clearly this is bogus - it is an obvious phishing attempt, but it could easily be tidied up to look a lot better, perhaps by the use of a URL shortening service.

In a recent tweet, Twitter themselves advise "We've seen a few phishing attempts today; if you've received a strange DM and it takes you to a Twitter login page, don't do it!"

It is strongly suggested that such links never be followed.  It is also suggested that Twitter users access the service via a client program that converts shortened URLs to their full link before allowing the user to access them – TweetDeck is such a package, there are plenty of others.

Stay safe, be alert.

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David Heath

David Heath has had a long and varied career in the IT industry having worked as a Pre-sales Network Engineer (remember Novell NetWare?), General Manager of IT&T for the TV Shopping Network, as a Technical manager in the Biometrics industry, and as a Technical Trainer and Instructional Designer in the industrial control sector. In all aspects, security has been a driving focus. Throughout his career, David has sought to inform and educate people and has done that through his writings and in more formal educational environments.

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