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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."
...as if millions of chirping birds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
More like peace and quiet for once... At the risk of careening off topic, anyone else think the web has become an unnecessarily noisy place? It's getting harder and harder to cut through the crap and meaningless prattle...
...hmm... I'd better shut up now....
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