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Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users
chicksdaddy writes "Twitter closed an ugly cross site scripting hole in its Web page Tuesday morning, but not until a fast moving attack, including at least two Twitter worms, compromised hundreds of thousands of user accounts. At its height, the attacks were hitting 100 Twitter users each second, putting estimates of the total number of victims at around 500,000 according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab."
Twitter closes hole after attack hits up to 500 000 of its users, known as twits.
Twitter = Facebook without all of the crap.
Well, at least shorter crap.
Three Squirrels
...gets the worm and then tweets about it. ;-)
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
How complicated is it to write somewhat secure software that processes 140 character messages?
Yeah, they should shorten it to 70 characters and make it twice as secure.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Hi Gramps! Shuffleboard on the main patio in 15 minutes. See you there.
Face the facts. Email is for us old people. Twitter is for, well, twits. But that's OK, the nurses are kinda cute and I like not having to get up early in the morning.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Anything that gets Twitter to shut its damn hole is a good thing IMHO.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Behold, the Twitter dualism:
1. All tweets are mindless drivel about what someone ate, the weather, and other trivialities.
2. Your potential employer will mine this deeply personal information and use it against you.
If they were using old Adobe employees, Twitter would start requiring you to update your system every 2 or 3 hours.