Surely
Why can't Twitter filter these DMs out?
The Twitter phishing attacks from earlier this week stepped up a gear on Friday with huge volumes of spam from compromised accounts, some of which belonged to UK cabinet minsters and even a bank. Pwned micro-blogging accounts include high profile targets such as Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change …
that the weakest link in any form of computer/IT/account security is the user.
Curiosity may have killed a few cats, but it has compromised far more credentials.
Is this a photograph of you?
Notice of unreported income.
My name is Ursula and I want to be your friend.
I can make a system very secure. Almost completely secure in fact against scripted attack. But as soon as there is a user account on that system other than my own, I consider it highly vulnerable and likely to be compromised.
Ed Milliband needs a bit of help in the todger department and was telling his mates about the fine source of therapeutic agents he'd discovered. Then, when news leaked out, resorted the time-honoured "oh noes, it woz teh norty hax0rs wot dunnit" excuse.
I prefer that version of events. Before you say anything, who's more likely to be telling the truth, me or a Cabinet Minister.....?
.. when you highlight the fact that there is a fake site out there to people at the site being mimicked and their response is "You don't have an account with us - please sign up".
Yes Milliband and Harman and countless thousand others are frankly idiots for falling for it but when attempts to report scam/phishing sites are simply dismissed out out hand........
Too right and the phishing boys seem to have already cottoned on to that little truism. All the really low-hanging fruit on one tree, what's not to like?
What's going to be really funny in a minute is when the Whaling types wake up and notice that Tw@ter offers a handy service whereby a simple phishing run can yield Bankers, captains of industry, senior politicos and all the the others they carefully target. If a shotgun campaign gives up gold, a carefully composed targetted attack on specific users should easily cough up the keys to the kingdom.
The countdown starts now, you ain't seen nothing yet.