Monday, August 4th, 2008
This week it’s Twitter’s turn to host an attack - one that is targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large. In this case it's a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty rabbit’ which has a photo advertising a video with girls ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Attackers can exploit a bug in Twitter to force victims to follow the hacker's account, a security researcher said Thursday.According to Aviv Raff, the Twitter vulnerably could expose users to malware-hosting Web sites. "It can force people to follow you, which means all your twits will be showed in their ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
When an executive wants to sound humane during a public address to the staff, he or she will trot out the well-worn phrase, "Our most valuable assets leave the building at the end of the day." Clichés are generally true, but this one may not be, thanks to the growth ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence? Or just need to keep a tab on who enters your room while you are away? Well, all you need is a webcam, a linux PC/laptop and a twitter account. And you are set for real time updates through twitter ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Twitter is a fun Web 2.0 communications tool that allows users to deliver quick messages of 140 characters or less. The hastiness and ephemeral nature of these messages means that Twitter has become more than a communication tool — it's a source of angry, funny and awkward messages that would ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Well, I finally jumped on that social networking bandwagon called Twitter. I signed up for Twitter about an hour or so ago just to check it out and see what all the hype was about. I know, I'm slow. But they always say that a person hears or sees something ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
You can easily update your Twitter status from the command line using cURL. The Tech-Recipes blog posted this handy command line hack:
With cURL installed, you can post to Twitter from the terminal window by using the following syntax:
curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
You will receive a response containing ...
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