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To: blind-geezer who wrote (195648)7/7/2009 7:27:19 AM
From: bumblin bob  Respond to of 208838
 
Twitterers (or should they be called Twits?) should read this:

Cybercrooks descend on Twitter with spam, attacks

Cybercriminals are rapidly using Twitter- the popular Web-messaging service - to direct users to websites that sell porn and fake drugs and trigger promotions for fake anti-virus subscriptions.

"We're starting to see a groundswell of attacks," says Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer at Websense, an Internet security firm. "Spam is usually the first bad thing we see before it escalates to things more nefarious."

Full story:
news.yahoo.com