...especially with your passwords. From CNET News:
Heh. That's pretty danged funny, when ya get right down to it... but hacking someone's account is no laughing matter. I hope none of my Twitter-buds fell for this.CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is one of the most popular users on microblogging service Twitter, with nearly 40,000 followers and a Twitterholic rank in the top 20. Unfortunately for Sanchez, it looks like he fell victim to the phishing scam that has been plaguing the popular service for several days now.
In a "tweet" that has since been deleted, Sanchez's account displayed the message "i am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today"--and we're pretty sure that did not come from Sanchez himself. He has now posted a response tweet explaining that his account was hacked.
Over the weekend, reports began to surface that there was a password-stealing phishing scam making the rounds on Twitter. Disguising itself as a private message that led to a fake Twitter log-in screen, the scam was widespread enough for Twitter to put a warning message on all members' home pages alerting them of the issue.
Why did so many people fall for it? Well, the fake Twitter log-in screen looked pretty darn authentic.
I don't know how to twitter.
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I've never read a twitter, sent a twitter, hell I barely get the concept of a twitter.
I'm unsure on the concept of Twitter, but I have been playing along for about a month now. It's kinda cool, in a 140-character-limited sort of way.
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