A 2009 Naivety Play

Tuesday, January 6. 2009

The only think one can say about the whole Twitter Identity Phishing thing is "what took them so long". We've been banging on about the naivete of many Social Media users for 2 years. So instead of us doing it this time, here's someone else:

While this weekend’s Twitter phishing scam is giving people an “epiphany” about the dangers of the Web it was a long time coming, right? Internet threats are not new. Were social media lovers really so naive as to think that Twitter would stay unscathed for long?

In reality, there is nothing spectacular about this recent phishing attempt (one of the malware sites was used in a Facebook scam last summer). It’s only a different method of the same madness. Security pros know this. However, it appears that the social media space only woke up this weekend. (Note: The actual Twitter hack, described at the bottom of this post, is a slightly different story.)

Believe it or not, that’s not a bad thing. At least it woke up. Watching “the sky is falling” antics from the last few days has been both fulfilling and amusing.

Lets see if his changes anything this time.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Identity / Profiles / Trust at 00:42 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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