Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users 135
chicksdaddy writes "Twitter closed an ugly cross site scripting hole in its Web page Tuesday morning, but not until a fast moving attack, including at least two Twitter worms, compromised hundreds of thousands of user accounts. At its height, the attacks were hitting 100 Twitter users each second, putting estimates of the total number of victims at around 500,000 according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab."
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
Twitter closes hole after attack hits up to 500 000 of its users, known as twits.
Re:Interesting, yet pointless (Score:3, Funny)
Well, at least shorter crap.
Title should have been: The early bird... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Seriously (Score:5, Funny)
How complicated is it to write somewhat secure software that processes 140 character messages?
Yeah, they should shorten it to 70 characters and make it twice as secure.
Re:Interesting, yet pointless (Score:4, Funny)
Face the facts. Email is for us old people. Twitter is for, well, twits. But that's OK, the nurses are kinda cute and I like not having to get up early in the morning.
But something was gained! (Score:5, Funny)
Anything that gets Twitter to shut its damn hole is a good thing IMHO.
Re:Interesting, yet pointless (Score:2, Funny)
Behold, the Twitter dualism:
1. All tweets are mindless drivel about what someone ate, the weather, and other trivialities.
2. Your potential employer will mine this deeply personal information and use it against you.
Re:Seriously (Score:4, Funny)