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Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

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."

3 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Twitter closes hole after attack hits up to 500 000 of its users, known as twits.

  2. Re:Seriously by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  3. But something was gained! by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anything that gets Twitter to shut its damn hole is a good thing IMHO.

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