Twitter, Welcome to the Mainstream! Just Don’t Drown!
January 7, 2009
On Monday, it was reported that LinkedIn had sccumbed to an attack as fake celebrity profiles were posted to lure unsuspecting users into handing over their personal details. The business networking site, which has over 30 million registered profiles worldwide, also came under attack in June 2008 with a similar ploy.
We’ve seen in 2009 with an unprecedented amount of news, flowing from cyberspace and nestling out of newspapers, talking about phishing, malware and all other sorts of malign Internet behaviour. First Twitter, and now LinkedIn, have been subject to attacks from hackers and cybercriminals just days into the new year, and we may well be on an upward trajectory as more and more people start using the services.
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