account hijacking

Twitter Begins Filtering Links

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 3, 2009 at 2:41 pm PT

Twitter quietly started checking the URLs that its users post, a security measure aimed at weeding out links to known malware sites. As online security firm F-Secure points out, the microblogging service “is increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking” and can easily filter links posted through it.