SC Magazine (US) is hosting security blog awards next week at RSA Conference 2010 and our own Mikko Hypponen is among the nominees in the Five to Follow on Twitter category. Mikko decided to take a look at ” this Twitter thingy ” last year and has now posted over 900 tweets with more than 5,600 followers. Here’s an example of the type of thing you might find from his feed

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SC Magazine’s Five to Follow

I’ve been playing with Twitter’s Goodies this afternoon.

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Twittering Widgets

UPDATE : I was asked to talk to Channel 4 news in the UK about this incident this evening and they have been good enough to share the full content of my interview and a subsequent interview on the same subject with Tim Stevens from King’s College London.

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Twitter (not) hacked by Iranian Cyber Army

How to Survive a Zombie Attack, by Acey Duecy   2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is known as botnets . A zombie, or a bot, is a PC infected by malware that brings it under the remote control of a criminal.

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2010 – Year of the Zombie Cloud?

Our blog has been nominated in the 2009 ComputerWeekly.com IT blog awards. We’re in the IT Security category. If you like us, you can vote at ComputerWeekly.com .

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I used to have a Twitter account, called mikkohypponen I used it to tell about things I saw while doing computer security research.

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Silence Hypponen

It seems SEO poisoning is the current “trend” for directing users to rogue antivirus software. These SEO poisoning attacks usually exploit major news topics, the latest of which is the September 29th earthquake off Samoa, which triggered a tsunami warning for numerous South Pacific islands, as well as Hawaii

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Samoa Earthquake News Leads To Rogue AV

A lot can be said with 140 characters.

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Tweeting Misleading Applications

Recently, Twitter implemented technology to help stem the threat of malicious URLs being propagated though its service.

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Twitter Filter Aimed at Killing Malicious Links