Twitter sent spam porn messages

This was really annoying, when i saw a message on my twitter account. As i am not using twitter, so i have just one follower and she is my class mate in university. Last night i got a message which surprises me:

‘hey, I’ve been having better sex and longer with this here link’,

I was shocked. Logged in to twitter acc and on the spot delete my account. I got another message 2 days ago, but this one was really shocking. So i decided to delete this acc.

Just now i was reading this article and it is confirmed now.

Twitter porn hits 800 UK bank followers, media and government | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com

Thanks for the read. I thought this was an interesting point:

Surely the time has come for vendors scrambling to integrate Twitter to start thinking again? By the same token those market mavens who scream about how dopey people like I am for poo-poo’ing social media might want to take a lesson or two in basic computing security as it applies to enterprise.

mmarif4u wrote:
> 'Twitter porn hits 800 UK bank followers, media and government |

if those were ‘exciting’ messages could you send them to me :wink:


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just kidding…happy friday!

This seems interesting, that how the big enterprises are going to act after this.

One thing more was in my mind, that what she had got from me as a direct message. If i can get that message, so i think almost every body got this.
This just really sucks.

And on the same page as the guy blogging about it is a button “Follow us on Twitter”.

lick lick Mmmm… tears of unfathomable irony, they taste so sweet.

You got me on that, I had the same idea but too late. Anyway they stopped the distribution already…rotfl!

You have to wonder about the wisdom of a bank that adopts trends willy-nilly without proper review and safeguards. Even if the spammer got nowhere near the accounts, this is very bad PR for the bank. I’d like my financial institutions to be a bit on the conservative side thanks.

One of the message was like that:
“Hey, is this you …link
Link was twitter.login.somedomain.com
The login page was 100% similar like twitter one. If a user don’t realize the URL, for sure s/he will enter the username and pass and then there you go. You sent you login data to that spammer.
The thing to notice is somedomain.com, not twitter.login. Every body could create such sub domains.

If it wasn’t for porn spammers, I wouldn’t have any followers on Twitter at all. rotfl!

But seriously, I am really brilliant. Yet, when my friend sent me a Facebook link to “Save the Children’s Christmas.” I clicked on it and had to re-enter my user and password. It didn’t work. About the third time I entered the info, I noticed that the Tab icon was not Facebook, but something in Korean (I’m guessing.) Just about the same time my friend sent an email saying his Facebook account had been hacked. D’oh! :shame:

Bad luck of your friend.
None of my account had/has been hacked till now. But i always double check the URL before entering any confidential data. Lets say, my bank account, I will double check the URL and then proceed with login. And the same goes with other web accounts.

Yes, but then more and more entities are making use of “tiny url” and similar. A tendency that will grow with the complexity of the bookmarks. Well, and who can than check the correctness of the links…

I was reluctant to create a MySpace account a few years ago. When I finally did, I was pounded by spam within a week. No, thanks, you can have your FaceBook/Twitter, etc, I think I’ll stick with the old methods and keep my anonymity.

For me, these are junk. Maybe for others it have some value, but not for me. I don’t have any account except Facebook, which i am not using anyway. Some days ago, i thought of deleting it. Looks like a good move.
Some time i think, why one will share personal things like pictures, activities with others whom i don’t know. It is just inviting troubles to Home. People can use your personal things in any way/shape they want to.

I went to a conference on privacy and surveillance yesterday, and at one point they cited executives from Google, Sun and Facebook. Their attitudes are pretty creepy. Speaking to a young friend of mine a while back, a very smart fellow whom I really respect, he told me bluntly “privacy is dead.” He’s in his 20s, and has grown up with Google, Facebook and the PATRIOT Act. I don’t know that he speaks for his generation, but attitudes are a lot different than they were 20 years ago, and it probably won’t ever be the same.

There is unfortunately a last conclusion of all this: if “privacy is dead” then “democracy is dead”. Imagine you know about about the tastes of every person and about the political orientation she/he might have. What would be the consequences? Do you really look her/him preparing moves that you dislike or are you going “make sure to have a peaceful life” and single this person out, nil his personality, make sure he is not able to find qualified work, nor should he be able to get qualified education.
All this is already and issue.

The fact that is more astonishing: people are fatalist. “Nothing can be done”, “anyway, you cannot prevent, change”. Even a lot of politician fake it is like this. Because it is convenient for them. Not to speak about the huge power of the new data industries. Speak about money, here we have more than money. We have potential unlimited control over individuals. Over the politicians of tomorrow, over the managers and higher parts of society of tomorrow.

Nice perspectives.

thanks for the information i should be aware of my twitter account