REPORT: Twitter Crime Jumps 20% in 2010
Need further evidence that you should keep your guard up while tweeting away in 140 characters or less? Twitter is "growing as a playground" for malicious Internet attacks, with a crime rate that jumped 20 percent last year alone, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks Inc.
Need further evidence that you should keep your guard up while tweeting away in 140 characters or less? Twitter is “growing as a playground” for malicious Internet attacks, with a crime rate that jumped 20 percent last year alone, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks Inc.
Calling it the “dark side of Twitter,” the report found that Twitter is becoming a victim of its own success, with malicious activity increasing as user activity increases.
In 2010, the Twitter “crime rate,” or number of accounts created each month that are eventually blocked by Twitter for misuse or suspicious or malicious activity, grew from 1.6
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