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Twitter Security Problems? Change Your Password!

Lots of hand-wringing around the web this morning over Twitter becoming the latest web serivce to have spam, phishing and other stuff that comes with the territory.

Twitter should console itself that it is now a big enough target for the dark corners of the internet to spend time and effort into scamming users of the site. This probably legitimises Twitter more than anything else – crack open the champagne, boys!

What can everyone else do? Well simple steps first. And the most obvious. Change your password (Chris says it just as loud). the relevant link is twitter.com/account/password but if you;re in paranoid mode, type it yourself into the browser and don’t follow my link.

And something else to consider. When logging on to a service, why not type in the wrong password first. In many cases you’ll still get a “you logged in just fine” message which should tell you something weird is up.

January 5, 2009; Web 2.0 (News);

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