Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company's …
Twitter: latest application platform problems solved
The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the …
Hackers put social networks such as Twitter in crosshairs
Web sites such as Twitter are becoming increasingly favored by hackers as places to plant malicious software in order to …
Twitter down on Saturday, external apps to be affected
Twitter experienced “unexpected” downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement …
Twitter used to manage botnet: Expert
A security researcher has found that hackers are using Twitter to distribute instructions to a network of compromised computers, known …
Twitter attack relatively small potatoes
Although last week's distributed denial-of-service attack on garnered lots of headlines, analysts at Arbor Networks say that the attack was …
Twitter withstands second DDoS attack in a week
Less than a week after Twitter was shuttered by a highly publicized distributed denial-of-service attack, the microblogging site was hit …
Twitter breach revives cloud security fears
Last month's breach of a hosted Google Apps implementation used by Twitter Inc. has heightened fears in some quarters that …
DDoS attack that downed Twitter also hit Facebook
The same denial-of-service attack that took down Twitter this morning also slammed Facebook but with much less dramatic results. Facebook …
Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to …
Twitter breach revives security issues with cloud computing
Security and privacy issues over cloud computing are not very different from those surrounding any sort of IT outsourcing and …
Microsoft ties Dynamics CRM to Twitter
Microsoft has integrated its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software with Twitter, in just the latest move by an enterprise …
Twitter: A Growing Security Minefield
In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users–and people who hadn't …
Hacker break-in of Twitter e-mail
A hacker made off with confidential Twitter documents after breaking into an employee's e-mail account, the company's co-founder confirmed. Security …
Twitter/Google Apps hack raises questions about cloud security
Questions about cloud security and the feasibility of storing critical information in Web-based services are being raised in the wake …
Twitter suspends accounts of users with infected computers
Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software …
Internet, Twitter blocked in China city after ethnic riot
China appeared to block Twitter across the country and Internet access in a western province today after ethnic riots killed …
Bing beats Google to the punch, launches Twitter search
Bing has beaten Google to the punch. Google Inc. has been rumored to be casting an eye toward creating a …
Bing adds Twitter posts to search results
Microsoft started adding some Twitter posts into Bing search results, gaining a bit of a leg up on competitors even …
Twitter's protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML e-mails
Showing again the power of Twitter for quick social organizing, Microsoft was forced to defend itself against complaints that its …