Micro-blogging malware madness big in Brazil Micro-blogging service Twitter has fallen prey to malware. Users of the micro-blogging service are being offered up links to booby-trapped sites from a compromised profile.… ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Tue, Aug 05 2008
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