High-Profile Twitter Hack Spreads Mac, Windows Trojan

From IDG News Service (Robert McMillan)
Former Apple Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki posts Twitter messages about a lot of different thing, but the message he put up Tuesday was really out of character: “Leighton Meester sex tape video free download!”
His message included a link that, after some further clicking, landed Kawasaki’s followers on a fake porn site where online criminals try to install a nasty Trojan horse program on victim’s computers. And in an interesting twist, the program attacks both Mac and Windows users.  Read the full story [computerworld.com]

From IDG News Service (Robert McMillan)

Former Apple Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki posts Twitter messages about a lot of different thing, but the message he put up Tuesday was really out of character: “Leighton Meester sex tape video free download!”

His message included a link that, after some further clicking, landed Kawasaki’s followers on a fake porn site where online criminals try to install a nasty Trojan horse program on victim’s computers. And in an interesting twist, the program attacks both Mac and Windows users.  Read the full story [computerworld.com]

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