Lots of you probably know by now about the Twitter dd0s (distributed denial of service ) attack. It started yesterday at 6am Pacific Time, and is ongoing.

According to an article on the Network World website today, the Security Executive Council has released a survey which concludes that most organizations no longer block social networking sites and all

AVG's doing some interesting marketing around the launch of 8.5. If you're on Twitter, follow @officialavgnews and check out #twitterpromo. There's a couple of grands' worth of vacation on offer!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10130566-2.html

There has recently been a phishing scam going around Twitter. Someone is sending direct messages with links that re-direct to a Twitter clone that asks for your user name and password.

There's a big phish doing the rounds at Twitter via DMs - if anyone knows anything about it, can they please post here and to Twitter? Tweet me at PatBittonTIP.

Pat