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Twitter internet worm attack affects thousands of users
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:03:53 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/21/twitter-internet-worm-hacking-attack By Charles Arthur guardian.co.uk 21 September 2010 Sarah Brown and Lord Sugar were among thousands of Twitter users who yesterday found themselves directing people to third-party sites, including hardcore pornography, as the messaging website fell prey to an "embarrassing" hacking attack discovered by a Japanese programmer and then exploited by a number of others. At one point more than 100,000 people on the service were estimated to have been affected, while the owners – who are based on the US west coast -- were asleep. Graham Cluley, a consultant with the online security company Sophos, said a rogue code or worm spread throughout the service "like someone had just thrown petrol on a fire". The problem brought a renewed focus on the importance of Twitter, which restricts users to 140-character tweets, and has more than 100 million users around the world. [...]
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