Twitter Strikes Phishing Scams By Detecting Bad Links
Good news on security front. Internet spammers and scammers beware ! Twitter one of the world’s best social networking and information giant for people around the world , will now detect phishing scams by testing links in direct message and through sent emails, mostly through which people are targeted.
According to Twitter’s director of Trust and Safety team in blog, clearly mentioned that detection and prevention of spam is our final goal. ” Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we’ll be able keep that user safe.
(source:blog.twitter.com)
Interesting side, the feature launched by twitter team will function behind the scene and links will be shortened to twt.tl in direct messages and email notifications . It also means that twitter will short its own url in order to restrict spam . A systematic examination or assessment, done especially to detect an unwanted attribute. Full credit to twitter and it’s trust and safety team.
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