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Petition to Verify Twitter Accounts for Financial Firms

How do Twitter users know they are interacting with a legitimate person or company? The truth is, they don’t. That is, unless that person is someone like Brittney Spears. Twitter has been offering “Verified Accounts” since June, but the company only seems interested in verifying accounts of celebrities — people like movie stars and sports […]

Twitter Phishing: How Can It Be Stopped?

Since January, the number of financial institutions on Twitter has skyrocketed. At last count, no fewer than 500 retail banks and credit unions had a Twitter account. With more and more of them offering to help resolve service issue on Twitter, it’s inevitable that phishing attacks will soon target retail financial consumers…if it isn’t happening […]