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What does it take to execute a successful spam operation peddling diet pills of questionable effectiveness? For one spammer, it took some 750,000 fake Twitter accounts. …

It didn’t take long for spammers to jump on the Apple Watch bandwagon – they set up a Twitter account named “Apple Giveaways”, and began spamming out …

With a simple tweet, Twitter has officially launched its own bug bounty program. Set up through the security response and bug bounty platform HackerOne, the program offers a …

A series of enhanced follower scams have tricked thousands of Twitter users after a group abused the platform’s authentication system, its Trends section and TweetDeck. …

Twitter has announced two changes aimed at helping protect user accounts and restore access to them. The company said that they are aware that many people reuse the same …

Weight loss spam is once again being massively spewed out from compromised Twitter accounts, but the question on everyone’s mind is how the accounts got commandeered by …

Following in the footsteps of Google and Facebook, Twitter has joined the ranks of Internet companies that have (or are working on) implementing Perfect Forward Secrecy, and …

When it comes to Twitter, people still have a large appetite for having a large number of fake followers in order to seem more popular. Fraudsters are cashing in on this in a …

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army have managed to hijack, deface and / or make unavailable the websites of The New York Times, Huffington Post UK and one of Twitter …

When Twitter finally offered 2-factor authentication for its users in May, many were disappointed by the offering as its usefulness hinged on verification codes being …

Pinterest, the popular pinboard-style photo-sharing website, has announced a couple of big changes, and among them is the Do Not Track (DNT) feature. “We want you to …

The Twitter underground economy and the fake social account market as a whole continues to gain momentum, and the financial motivations of this multimillion-dollar business …