Twitter Hacks Raise Social Net Security Flags

If you use Twitter, re-set your password before you do anything else. Then give some thought to what this week's Twitter hack says about how we use social networks, both in business and personally.

Keith Ferrell

Contributor

January 06, 2009

If you use Twitter, re-set your password before you do anything else. Then give some thought to what this week's Twitter hack says about how we use social networks, both in business and personally.Social network Twitter's dual security breaches this week --a phishing campaigned aimed at Twitter users, and the compromise of more than 30 high-visibility Twitter accounts, including those of President-elect Obama and CNN -- offer more than a couple of security opportunities: