Re: Report: Most Twitter Tweets 'Pointless Babble'

[phester <funsec () armorfirewall com>]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gHoqeSOGRXDzL3dTeSjFVCCdK9hwD9A2SAEO0

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A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last 
week discovered another, unrelated security problem.

At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network of 
a couple hundred infected personal computers, mostly in Brazil. Networks 
of infected PCs are referred to as "botnets" and are responsible for so 
much of the mayhem online, from identity theft to spamming to the types of 
attacks that crippled Twitter.

Jose Nazario with Arbor Networks said he found a Twitter account that was 
used to send out what looked like garbled messages. But they were actually 
commands for computers in a botnet to visit malicious Web sites, where 
they download programs that steal banking passwords.
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