Scammers hit Twitter with tainted tweet storm - USATODAY.com

A flurry of tainted micropostings is swamping Twitter with malicious scams, making it tougher to trust tweets even from people you know, security researchers say.

Several attacks that launched last week used tried-and-true e-mail spamming techniques. "We're seeing old scams migrating to the popular social networks," says Matt Marshall, lead researcher at Redspin, which tests network defenses...