Category: Industry

  • Direct Message Phishing to Spam

    I received a Twitter DM from one of the accounts that was a victim of Twitter phishing this weekend. Hey! I just got a FREE iphone from this website.. here http://helloiphones.com The culprit is a follower known to me, and not a random spam follower this time.  Looks like some other people are experiencing the…

  • Twitter Phishing Attack Screenshots

    A Mashable post about the Twitter phishing attack going on makes the point that this is a “coming-of-age” for Twitter, in that “nobody phishes where there are no phish to catch.”  Maybe so, but I’m annoyed nonetheless. Twitter sent out a tweet (if you’re following @Twitter) linking to a blog post about the phishing event.…

  • Various Predictions for 2009

    These are the predictions I’ve seen in media/technology so far.  Anyone have any others? From @themediaisdying tweet on Twitter: YOUR PREDICTIONS: EW, OK!, SEATTLE TIMES, MIAMI HERALD, BLENDER, EWEEK and COMPUTERWORLD will all not se e Christmas 2009. From cnet.com: Sony:  Further reduction in PS3 pricing, Blu-Ray struggles to gain ground on DVDs with streaming…