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everybody is doing it: "tweeting," that is. Yet like so many other things that are all the rage, Twitter has a bit of a dark side. No, I'm not talking about users who detail their entire day via the microblogging site. Recently, concerns about hacking and "maltweets" have plagued users of the popular free social networking site and others.
According to Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan, Inc. - a provider of products for Java security and management - the problem for Twitter users basically lies with the shortened URLs used in posts. Because Twitter only allows 140 characters in a post, URLs pose problems for users, so they often use URL shortening services. "When you see [a shortened URL] you don't know where it's going to take you," says Ben-Itzhak. Quite often a user is taken to a site infected with malware, viruses, and more.
According to James Brooks, director of product management at Cyveillance - a provider of cyberintelligence - users are most...