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Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:Great - more 4Chan? by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have to use twitter and be the type of person who clicks on questionable links without regard.

    Which of these links is "questionable":

    http://tinyurl.com/2tx
    http://bit.ly/heezy
    http://xrl.us/bh2p3m

    That's what all of the links on Twitter look like, which are OK and which are questionable? How does one distinguish?

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  2. Re:Great - more 4Chan? by Dancindan84 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All of them. I don't click on shortened URLs. Nor should anyone who isn't a Rick Astley or Goatse fan.

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