Twitter adds 2 factor authentication

This is a big deal. If you have a Twitter account, please do yourself a favour and follow the steps below to enable two factor authentication.​ It will give you a huge security boost.

1. Visit your account settings page.
2. Select “Require a verification code when I sign in.”
3. Click on the link to “add a phone” and follow the prompts.
4. After you enroll in login verification, you’ll be asked to enter a six-digit code that we send to your phone via SMS each time you sign in to twitter.com.

Check out the link on Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/getting-started-login-verification​

Twitter Hacked

It seems like there's been a number of Twitter accounts hacked in the last few days.

If you've received a password reset request from Twitter via email, we urge you to change your password immediately, BUT, as ever, go direct to the website through your browser, rather than clicking a link in an email....just in case.

It's also worth reminding you of the importance of not using the same password for Twitter as you do for your online banking or any other sensitive website.

As in this case, if your password is stolen, it can potentially be used wherever else you log in, if you use the same password.

Even if you haven't had a recent password reset request, it might just be worth thinking about changing yours anyway. Think of it as a bit of house-keeping.

Also consider adding something to your password that is particular to that site, that you can easily remember, and that will make it different to your other passwords.

Don't delay - do it today!

Twitter Spam Alert

Don't click a link from a DM if it says the following:
"Hi this user is making very bad things about you...LINK"
Hopefully the bad English would alert you to suspicious content, but the link would probably take you to a website full of Malware and nastiness.
BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT CLICKING LINKS, especially when received from somebody you know.

Yet More Twitter Spam

We've received a number of DM's this morning from followers saying:

"hi, i'm 24/female/horny... i have to get off here but message me on my windows live messenger name Paris545love@hotmail.com"

As always, please don't click any links. This is far too obvious to be a real threat we imagine, but some people might be caught out.

People sending out these DM's need to change their Twitter passwords and run anti-spyware scans on their computers.

Twitter Phishing Scam Continues

We're still getting DM's from people who are the victim of a recent phishing scam, whereby they inadvertently send out DM's say " hahah This you??" with a link attachment.

Do not click this link, as it takes you to a fake Twitter login page which steals your information (if you type it in!) and then sends the same link to all the people you're following.

If you're the victim of this, we recommend changing your Twitter password immediately, and running an anti-spyware and anti-virus (from a reputable manufacturer) to check that there's no infection on your system.

Please read our Pop Up Scams page to make sure you don't download a rogue fake anti-virus program.

Read our first post about this.

As a side note, if you're running Google Chrome (or possibly Firefox with NoScript, although we've not checked) then this link attack would have been blocked.

Twitter Phishing Attempt

The latest Twitter phishing scam involves a DM reading “lol, is this you”,  "you look funny", "haha this is funny" and linking to a site called “bzpharma”, do not click the link.

If you do click the link and then enter your details (but why would you!?) then your Twitter account will be used to send out more rogue DM's.

If this has happened to you, we suggest you log in to your Twitter account and change your password immediately.

In fact we recommend you change you password frequently anyway (a pain, but a safer option)

It seems as though these DM's have been around for a while now, but have suddenly re-surfaced in large numbers recently.

SNS TIP:

AS ALWAYS: Be very wary and suspicious of any links sent to you, especially if the grammar is slightly odd.

Be even more careful with links that have been shortened, and therefore obscured.

We recommend using Sucuri which shows the real location of a shortened url.