{"id":1998,"date":"2009-07-06T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2009-07-06T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:27:04","slug":"surging-spam-attacks-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/06\/surging-spam-attacks-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Surging spam attacks on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rise in malicious spam attacks on Twitter users by cybercriminals, <a title=\"as reported in USA Today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2009-07-05-hackers-internet-twitter_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">as reported in USA Today<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0is\u00a0directing\u00a0people to websites soliciting\u00a0porn,\u00a0 fake drugs and phony anti-virus subscriptions. \u00a0<a title=\"Azer Bestavros\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/best\/azer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azer Bestavros<\/a>, professor of computer science and an expert on social networking security issues, can discuss the problems facing heavy Twitter users.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Azer Bestavros, 617-353-9726, <a href=\"mailto:best@bu.edu\">best@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rise in malicious spam attacks on Twitter users by cybercriminals, as reported in USA Today,\u00a0\u00a0is\u00a0directing\u00a0people to websites soliciting\u00a0porn,\u00a0 fake drugs and phony anti-virus subscriptions. \u00a0Azer Bestavros, professor of computer science and an expert on social networking security issues, can discuss the problems facing heavy Twitter users. Contact Azer Bestavros, 617-353-9726, best@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1407,1406,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}