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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Don't Click The WTF Link On Twitter Unless You DO Like Sex With Goats
— Either a lot of Techies are into really kinky things, or there is a Twitter worm going around. It looks like a ton of people just started sending out Tweets saying “I Like Anal Sex With Goats.”
Sep 26, 2010, 2:45 PM–
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Twitter ‘antibodies’ help kill worm, says researcher
— Users are Twitter's best defense against hardcore hackers, but not spammers — Computerworld - Social-networking services like Facebook and Twitter have a natural defense against hardcore hackers, a security researcher said Tuesday.
Sep 22, 2010, 12:30 PM–
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| Robert McMillan / Computerworld: |
Twitter knew about worm bug a month ago
— IDG News Service - A serious bug that led to a series of fast-spreading worms on Twitter's website Tuesday had been fixed in August but was accidentally re-introduced. — The bug caused havoc until Twitter got it under control later on Tuesday morning.
Sep 21, 2010, 8:50 PM–
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Twitter worms spread quickly thanks to blatant security flaw
— Anyone checking twitter.com this morning was probably greeted with a mess of JavaScript, mouseover effects, and spam retweets, after a flaw in the site's handling of hyperlinks allowed attackers to inject scripts into Twitter's pages.
Sep 21, 2010, 12:00 PM–
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| Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: |
Twitter Ad Models Could Open PPC Trademark Can Of Worms
— Allowing marketers to bid on trademarked keywords they don't own has been a bit of a gray issue for search engines. For starters, some marketers turned it into a strategy, bidding up competitor's keywords to gain the upper hand.
Apr 14, 2010, 6:05 PM–
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| Ben Parr / Mashable!: |
WARNING: Twitter Worm Spreading via Direct Messages
— We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter. Hacked accounts are sending DMs to users and stealing their login information.
Sep 23, 2009, 10:00 PM–
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| Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog: |
Twitter Now Filtering Malicious URLs
— As Twitter has been getting more and more popular, it is increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking. — We've recommended Twitter to start filtering traffic to fight this. They can easily do it, as all the messages go through them.
Aug 3, 2009, 12:35 PM–
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| John Leyden / The Register: |
Twitter riddled with worms and scams (again)
— Who will stop the madness? — Multiple new versions of the Mikeyy cross-site scripting worm spread across the Twitter micro-blogging network over the weekend. — The first in the latest batch of worms berated Twitter for poor security.
Apr 20, 2009, 12:00 PM–
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| Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb: |
Security Expert Suggests Twitter Focus on Output Escaping not Input Filtering
— Twitter's status blog this morning announced that Twitter has addressed the most recent variant of the Mikeyy worm but recommends that you still avoid viewing the profiles of users posting “uncharacteristic or otherwise suspicious tweets.”
Apr 19, 2009, 1:35 AM–
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| Guillermo Rauch / Devthought: |
The Digg worm that wasn't
— Two nights ago I was editing my Digg profile and couldn't help but think about the recent Mikeyy and Twitter revolt. Within minutes I had found a XSS exploit that could theoretically allow me to achieve the same. — Half an hour later, I had a working worm ready …
Apr 18, 2009, 8:40 PM–
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