Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone, recently announced at the
Technology Summit in New York that his company is currently
focusing on introducing several features for commercial use, such
as analytics and a directory of commercial accounts that would
verify that businesses on Twitter are legitimate.
The main question that Twitter aficionados and potential users
of these tools must ask themselves in the first place should
concern the capacity of a micro blogging platform to deliver safe
and secure applications, especially since stats and data that could
affect business are involved.
The range of breaches and attacks—from cross-site
scripting vulnerabilities to worm attacks—was augmented with
last week’s attack. This could be devastating in case
business information leaks from the compromised accounts.
It is worth mentioning that the latest endeavors by miscreants
focused particularly on stealing login credentials, as well as
other data that could facilitate access to Twitter and similar
platforms, such as e-mail, blogging, or e-commerce accounts.
Gaining access to such platforms translates into a wide range of
e-crime opportunities—from further spam and phishing attempts
(by using the list of followers/friends/contacts)—to
identifying and stealing commercial data, blackmail, and
extortion.
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