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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."
The worms allowed attackers to infect a user's account and those of his or her followers,...
As you can see, they didn't secure trans-gender accounts - why do you think they said "his or hers"? Because the account holder is trans-gender and they weren't sure what to call him or her.
Now, folks who were followers of him and the folks who were followers of her were completely fine.
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
That would be home made Kombucha.
...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....
There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
[...and suggest a car that only goes 30 miles per usage for no real reason other than to differentiate itself from cars that are actually useful..]
This is why those craptastic Mazda 3s and VWs sell so well in the US most likely. No, they can't go 65-70 reliably, but they look stylish. Of course, the European counterparts actually have horsepower, but the American ones tend to be for people who just don't know any better.