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Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/twitter_malware/
Conficker, Still Infecting Windows Machines a Year Later, Remains an Enigma
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Conficker-Still-Infecting-Windows-Machines-A-Year-Later-Remains-an-Enigma-543974/
Worm Infections Explode Thanks to Conficker and Taterf
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| The volume of worm infections exploded in
| the first half of 2009, compared with the
| second half of 2008, according to
| Microsoft. In volume seven of the Microsoft
| Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), the
| Redmond company indicates that Conficker
| and Taterf have made worm infections second
| only to those caused by miscellaneous
| Trojans. According to the software giant,
| worms such as Conficker and Taterf are
| designed to exploit unsecured file shares,
| as well as infect removable storage
| devices, while spreading from one machine
| to another. Microsoft warned that, unlike
| home users, enterprise IT environments were
| more exposed to the threat presented by
| worms because of unsecured file shares and
| removable storage.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Worm-Infections-Explode-Thanks-to-Conficker-and-Taterf-125883.shtml
Microsoft security report shows worms are returning
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| Microsoft's latest security intelligence
| report shows a resurgence in worms,
| although rogue security software also
| remains a big issue.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/02/microsoft_security_report/
Recent:
When is a RT Bot not a RT Bot? â Hashwindows?
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| Thats really academic and not the point of
| todays article. Today we are going to look at
| the Twitter account HashWindows who,
| presumably is a bot which RTâs posts
| containing keywords relevant to the topic it
| RTâsâno surprises hereâWindows!
|
| Before we look at how robotic or automated
| this account really is, let me just say that I
| have not yet established if Hashwindows is an
| official Microsoft account (one of many) and
| nobody seems to know. It lists its location
| as Pearl, but has no contact details or means
| of tracing its origins, sounds like one of the
| MS Faithful so far eh?
|
| I first noticed Hashwindows a few months ago
| in my replies section of Twitter, I thought it
| was quite funny how it would RT my comments
| (some of which hardly made favorable reading)
| As time went on I lost interest in what I
| considered was a Twitter spam bot and
| dismissed it as a badly coded piece of work
| that blinded spouted RTâs of Windows related
| subjects (a little like the MS faithful do
| Steve Ballmers comments)
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/when-is-a-rt-bot-not-an-rt-bot-hashwindows/
Key Perspectives on the FTC Blogger Guidelines
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| An interesting development has occurred in the
| story of the controversial FTC guidelines for
| sponsored blogging/social media. The
| Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has
| called upon the FTC to rescind the blogger
| rules, and has questioned the
| constitutionality of them. As you may know,
| there have been a lot people calling them an
| infringement on free speech.
|
| The IAB says the rules unfairly and
| unconstitutionally impose penalties on online
| media for practices in which offline media
| have engaged for decades. In an open letter to
| FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, Randall
| Rothenberg, the President and CEO of the IAB,
| called the FTCâs distinction between offline
| media and online media, "constitutionally
| dubious."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/10/16/key-perspectives-on-the-ftc-blogger-guidelines
Windows 7 Freebies For Twitter Fans
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| Microsoft is continuing its social media campaign to
| promote Windows 7. Twitter users who search for the
| #WinWin7 tag can win pizzas, candy, gaming keyboards and
| other "somewhat goofy" prizes, a spokesman said.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220200062
Microsoft Tests Social Media Monitoring Product
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| Microsoft has developed a social media analytics tool
| that's designed, among other things, to improve a marketing
| organization's ability to adjust to social media phenomena
| on the fly.
|
| Called "Looking Glass," the product is still in prototype
| and will only be available to a few companies in the near
| term. It sends e-mail alerts when social media activity
| picks up considerably. The sentiment (i.e., negative or
| positive) of that chatter and the influence level of the
| content creator are reported in the alert. Digital flow
| charts show what days of the week generate the most
| activity on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and other
| social media sites.
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http://www.clickz.com/3635086
Microsoft Wants To Make A Play In Social Media Monitoring
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-microsoft-wants-to-make-a-play-in-social-media-monitoring/
Microsoftâs Looking Glass Will Let Marketers Peer Into A Real-Time Social Stream
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/23/microsofts-looking-glass-will-let-marketers-peer-into-the-social-stream/
Yipee! Microsoft Enters the Social Media Monitoring Space
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/09/yipee-microsoft-enters-the-social-media-monitoring-space.html
Will Microsoft's LookingGlass Shed New Light On Social Media?
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| A new product in development by Microsoft Advertising under
| the code-name "LookingGlass" may be the help brands are
| looking for.
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http://inventorspot.com/articles/will_microsofts_lookingglass_shed_new_light_social_media_32934
Microsoft Wants to Help Marketers Manage Messy Social Media
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| Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new platform
| called Looking Glass, a social-media aggregator and
| monitoring tool that's still in "proof of concept" stage,
| meaning it's not yet in the market and will be open to a
| very small group of testers next month.
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http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=139199
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