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• Tweet your way to a VIP ticket to HITBSecConf2013 in Amsterdam

  11.02.2013

  Hack In The Box launched the #HITB1337Giveaway - A Twitter based competition that will see one lucky winner not only walk away with a VIP ticket to the triple track hacker conference in April but also $1337 to help with travel expenses.

• Pope's resignation exploited by Twitter spammers

  11.02.2013

  The announcement of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI later this month has taken the world by surprise, but spammers were quick to react to the news by flooding Twitter with random messages and spammy links accompanied with "#Pope": The offered bit.ly shortened links are currently leading to webpages apparently hosting adult videos and other pages designed to make money through affiliate links but, as Sophos' Graham Cluley notes, webpages infected with malware or phishing sites could easily be next.

• Twitter users hit with typo-squatting phishing campaign

  08.02.2013

  In the wake of last week's compromise of 250,000 Twitter accounts comes another threat to Twitter users: phishing messages - both DMs and tweets - that lure in the curious by asking "Did you see this pic of you?" Appended to the message is a bit.ly shortened link that leads to a changing subdomain on hecro.ru, from which the victims are redirected to one of a number of spoofed Twitter login pages located on typosquat-style domains such as tivtter.com, iftwtter.com and iwltter.com.

• Twitter confirms hack compromised 250,000 user accounts

  02.02.2013

  Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens of some 250,000 Twitter users following a successful breach of a database containing user data.

• Twitter bug gives 3rd-party apps access to users' Direct Messages

  22.01.2013

  A Twitter bug allowed third-party applications to access Direct Messages of users who signed in to the apps by using their Twitter account, reported IOActive researcher Cesar Cerrudo.

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