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Twitter could be banned in the UK
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-03-18 06:42
Twitter has come to the attention of MP George Galloway, who thinks it should defer to the wishes of local authorities or be sanctioned by the government.
Galloway, Member of Parliament for Bradford West, has filed an early day motion called "Twitter and the detection of crime".
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Twitter troll annoys boxer, boxer pays him a visit
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-03-13 11:17
Several visits to bars when I was 13 taught me a simple thing: it's rarely good to insult someone who's larger and more muscular than you are.
The Web, though, offers some theoretical protection from this maxim. The object of your bile doesn't know who you are.
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Security Bigwigs to Deliver Keynote at HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-03-01 14:51
Amsterdam, 1 March: Edward Schwartz, Chief Information Security Officer at global information security giant, RSA, will be delivering his Day 1 keynote address on “Embracing the Uncertainty of Advanced Attacks with Big Data Analytics“ at the annual HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam on the 10th of April.
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Twitter stops phishing with DMARC
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-02-25 07:49
Twitter is adopting Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), a new specification designed to authenticate emails so users don't fall for phishing attacks.
The technology helps prevent users from receiving phishing emails puporting to come from Twitter, among the most abused brands on the web.
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Attack on Burger King underlines problems for a fast-growing advertising venue
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-02-25 06:06
While most Americans were winding up their holiday weekends last Monday, the phones at the Vancouver, British Columbia, headquarters of HootSuite, a social media management company, began to ring.
Burger King’s Twitter account had been hacked. Its logo had been replaced by a McDonald’s logo, and rogue announcements began to appear. One was that Burger King had been sold to a competitor; other posts are unprintable.
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