Be careful if you’re on Twitter.  A new security flaw has been found and is being widely exploited on thousands of Twitter accounts. The hack in question redirects users to potentially malicious third-party websites without their consent.  These sites could contain malware, spyware, and/or viruses. What makes this particular hack a bit more sinister is [...]

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Relax, Twitter users, all is well with the world.  It looks like the predicted Twitpocalypse has been averted. Twitter got proactive and, rather than wait around for disaster to strike, they triggered the cataclysmic event today instead.  It seems to have worked. “As planned, we averted the twitpocalypse with a deploy this afternoon,” Twitter co-founder [...]

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Twitter is having a rough weekend. A second exploit has been released bearing the name of the 17-year-old who allegedly created yesterday’s StalkDaily worm. The difference, however, is that this attack seems to be more of a distraction than anything else.  The only thing it does is post unwanted messages. The “mikeyy” worm posted messages [...]

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TweetDeck is arguably the hottest desktop client for Twitter. Now you can add Facebook functionality to it too! TweetDeck has just joined Facebook Connect. When you send a Tweetdeck message, you can now send it via Facebook, Twitter, or both. A new column has been added to TweetDeck showing status updates from your friends on [...]

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