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By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:31:55 +0000

Sorry for the double comment but is it possible to move the comment entry form closer to the comments themselves instead of having the trackback/pingbacks in between? Maybe the form on top of the comments or moving the trackback/pingbacks to before the comments?

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:30:27 +0000

@Henry, no not really. What I think happened is it is likely a network of sites. And what George Stephanopoulos fell for would be a more legitimate site than just to gain followers for harvesting login credentials.

But then that can be confirmed only by George Stephanopoulos ;-)

However, the post itself if unclear between the two. From how I understood, the login credentials harvesting leads naturally to phishing which makes it confusing.

By: Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:12:53 +0000

@AJ: I understand that once somebody gives the site his or her account and password, the person behind this can tweet from the account in question. But I take the fact that George Stephanopoulos’s account was compromised as evidence that it’s not JUST this specific social engineering going on. Unless you want to make the case that Stephanopoulos fell for a scam that he thought would get him tons of followers.

–Harry

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:02:44 +0000

Your post does not make sense..

Clicking on the links in their Tweets takes you to one of several sites that instruct you to enter your Twitter name and password to get the promises TONS of followers.
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I’m not sure how the phisher who’s doing this is tweeting from other folks’ accounts

First you say that the sites ask a user to enter their twitter credentials and then you say that it is a phisher and have no idea how s/he is tweeting from those accounts?

Once a user enters their twitter login credentials, the scammer is free to post all the tweets he or she wishes to. What’s the mystery there.

It’s not phishing or even a vulnerability. Stretching the meaning of the term a bit, we can at most call it simple social engineering

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