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Security Alert: Twitter Porn Names Scam

If it looks like fun, it's dangerous
Aurora Dizon

Popular social networking site Twitter's current top trending topic, or things that are twittered the most in a period of time, has a security hole.

The 'Twitter porn names' among things to do with your friends and gives you something to tweet about is nothing more than a disguise to get users to publicly post answers to their online security questions.
Twitter porn names
The current game has a few variations - you can take the name of your first pet and combine it with the street you grew up on or your mother's maiden name, for instance. Howeverm all of these are common security questions to access your online accounts and bank information.
Follow PC Advisor on TwitterBe wary of this and other versions of the game that might entice you to reveal potential answers to your security questions.
Be sure to pass along the information to your friends if they have been unwittingly providing answers to their security questions.
If you have publicly revealed answers to your online security questions delete the post and change your passwords along with updating your security questions.

as a newbie on this twitter, i'm quite shocked on how easy twitter gets scam or phising. maybe it's not twitter's great day..