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Old 21-09-2010, 12:23 PM #1
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It's all ****ed up lol, someone exposed a security flaw now it's all gone mad
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More about it here - http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/201...ely-exploited/
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Went on now and got freaked out by it. Definitely staying off,thanks for this!
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I don't use twitter thankfully, is it some kind of spam virus?
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Mine's been fine :/
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I think Twitter have removed the loophole now
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If you have been hit with the security bug/flaw – here’s how to fix it quickly and easily:
Go to Twitter’s mobile site and login - http://mobile.twitter.com/
Go to your user page
Delete the bad virus tweets
It may take a minute for your Twitter account to appear clean

After you have cleaned the bad tweets, make sure not to mouse over any links in the Twitter.com interface. And just to be safe, change your password.

Apparently the third party client tools for accessing Twitter are not affected by this bug – so if you need to Tweet that pic of your dog, that you just ate a ham sandwich or that you are now at the Borders buying the latest Playboy, check out Tweetdeck, Brizzly or Seesmic.
http://www.centernetworks.com/twitte...law-how-to-fix
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It appears that in Sarah Brown's case her Twitter page has been messed with in an attempt to redirect visitors to a hardcore porn site based in Japan. That's obviously bad news for her followers - over one million of them.
They probably just took advantage of her husband's browsing history.
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It's all ****ed up lol, someone exposed a security flaw now it's all gone mad

Yes the Hacker did it to show it could be done
He then contacted the BBC and others.



Worms to the Dark side.

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Maybe they should Employ him as security
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Mine's been fine :/

It was not on the phone app for twitter.

Only the Web site.
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No the Hacker himself did it.
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Went on now and got freaked out by it. Definitely staying off,thanks for this!

The Dark Side Worm
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so what was it doing? just loads of pop ups!
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so what was it doing? just loads of pop ups!

Its Fixed now.


But it was able to move your mouse to the Worms in the Dark Side.
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Its Fixed now.


But it was able to move your mouse to the Worms in the Dark Side.
That sounds worrying! so it made you click on stuff
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That sounds worrying! so it made you click on stuff

Yes the hacker was showing off.


So the mouse would arrive on the Twitter Site
then start moving on its own.
Into the Worms.



He has proved he has power
and even contacted the BBC by text or something.
Magnus - I think he called himself


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11382469


"The first self-replicating code, or worm, seems to have been written by a developer called Magnus Holm."


"The code was spread by worms, self-replicating, malicious pieces of code.

Thousands of users were caught out by the flaw, including Sarah Brown, the wife of the UK's former UnElected Prime Minister."
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It was me. Soz guys xo

no it was not.
You fake
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Cos I said so.
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You fake
And how do YOU know?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100922...20100922092602


This is the kid who started it.

http://twitter.com/zzap
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http://twitter.com/zzap/status/25105179036

http://twitter.com/zzap/status/25105107613

http://twitter.com/zzap/status/25105328440

http://twitter.com/zzap/status/25105440191

http://twitter.com/zzap/status/25105534508

Crazy, those are the tweets that started the whole thing.
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Mine was fine :/

I use it very rarely though.
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