User Agent Man » General Announcements http://www.useragentman.com/blog A Blog about Client Side Web Technology Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:02:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Twitter Security Issue Affects My Twitter Account. http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/21/twitter-security-issue-affects-my-twitter-account/ http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/21/twitter-security-issue-affects-my-twitter-account/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:05:19 +0000 zoltan http://www.useragentman.com/blog/?p=332 Today has been a lovely day, I must say.  Someone has been using my account to send SPAM messages saying:

I make money online with google. i learned how here: ——

This message was followed by a link, which I am not going to post here for obvious reasons.  I found out when two of my followers sent me a private message and gave me the heads up (thanks Paul and Sharon!).  I was away at a rummage sale at the time, but I changed my password using my phone to see if that would stop it.  I am not sure if it will, but we’ll see.

When I came home, I found a couple of articles that reassured me it was not just my account:

Although this doesn’t appear to by my fault, I want to express my apologies to my followers about this. I don’t know what caused this, but I’ll keep you posted on future posts, so I can potentially prevent this from happening to others. I would never send you spam, and this really annoys me like you wouldn’t believe.

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