Tools to Twitter more safely
Posted on | July 6, 2009 | 1 comment
THE WATCHPOST: The tainting of Twitter
There are tools available that can help you lower your risk of clicking to a corrupted Web link (bad URL) while using Twitter and other popular social networks. They include:
SecureTwitter. This free tool from Israeli security vendor Finjan uses a browser plug-in that alerts users about the safety of URLs that turn up in Tweets and other social net messages.
Livia Web Protection. This tool is available to consumers for a subscription. It uses intelligence gathered from corporations using Websense’s Web browsing monitoring service to block malicious Web links in social network messages in real time.
AVG LinkScanner. This free tool from AVG scans the pages behind all the links you click or type into your browser. It tells you in real-time whether a Web link you’re trying to click to contains malicious code. This is important because criminals often leave bad URLs live for a few hours or days, then switch pages to stay one step ahead of blacklists.
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Great post… Livia Web Protection is top notch.. We use Websense at work so it was an easy decision for us to install Livia for our home web filtering software.
Comment by Eric M. — 7/6/2009 @ 4:20 pm