Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week

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Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 27, 2010 @04:55AM from the security-is-hard dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Days after a site update unleashed a Twitter cross-site scripting attack, the micro-blogging site was again hit with a bug that spread via questionable links. The offending messages appeared on a user's Twitter feed with 'WTF:' followed by a link. If you clicked on that link, you were taken to a blank page, but behind the scenes, the worm would post vulgar messages on your account that discussed, well, sex involving goats."

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where is that goatsex link when you need it? by ehack · 2010-09-27 04:57 · Score: 1, Funny

where is that goatsex link when you need it?

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1. Re:where is that goatsex link when you need it? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-27 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Now I've seen everything!
  A link to goatse is at "+2 Insightful" as I type this.
  A historical day at slashdot to be sure
2. Re:where is that goatsex link when you need it? by AnonymousClown · 2010-09-27 05:11 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  That's because goatse is on topic and appropriate in this case. It's also on topic whenever anything to do with Congress comes up.
  Geeze!
  
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This is why... by thescreg · 2010-09-27 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

It took me awhile to realize what was going on. This is pretty much what I post about on Twitter anyway.
Sex with goats? by The+Good+Reverend · 2010-09-27 05:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Um, no, actually. That really was me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah by microbee · 2010-09-27 05:11 · Score: 3, Funny

blame the virus, you perverts!
The early bird... by Anne_Nonymous · 2010-09-27 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

...gets the worm.
OH by mattwrock · 2010-09-27 05:20 · Score: 2, Funny

I thought it was posting goatse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse

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Finally by rudy_wayne · 2010-09-27 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

the worm would post vulgar messages on your account that discussed, well, sex involving goats
Finally!! Something worthwhile on Twitter.