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Subject: [ISN] Twitter internet worm attack affects thousands of users
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2010-09-22 8:03:53
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1009220303450.25486 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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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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