Fake Vint Cerf tweets link spam on Twitter
A Twitter account in the name of internet luminary Vint Cerf has been suspended after miscreants abused it to send link spam.
The @cerf account Cerf himself established with the micro blogging service last month was used to push auction search sites, according to a ZDNet security blog story. Really? Actually no - it's a fake profile, as Cerf himself confirms.
Circumstantial evidence suggested that the account was set up by unidentified impersonators. A search on Twitter reveals that few plausible looking updates were sent last month before the account began pumping out link spam. A few days of this resulted in the automatic suspension of the account.
