Maybe this will also lower the amount of spam
tweets I see in search and the number of spam
accounts following me(harder money source=fewer
people creating these accounts). I sure hope it'll
DELETE phishing tweets.
Twitter aims to filter out malicious links
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Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.
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Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.
The company will route all links submitted to the site through a filter created to catch links that lead to malware, the company said on the Twitter blog on Tuesday."A couple weeks ago, Biz [Stone, Twitter co-founder] explained how Twitter users were being victimized by phishing scams spread primarily through links in direct messages," the post said. "Basically, people click the link and bad things happen. My team can only detect these scams after malicious links have already been sent out."For more of this story, read Twitter to block malicious links on CNET News.
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