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Twitter worm outbreak over Easter

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Twitter worm outbreak over Easter12th April 2009, 11:05 pm

A cross-site scripting worm was spreading in Twitter profiles for several hours last night.

People started reporting that their profile had sent Twitter messages without their knowledge. More at; http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001653.html

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Re: Twitter worm outbreak over Easter12th April 2009, 11:12 pm

Read about this today.

Seems harmless though, doesn't really do anything, just a hacker using peoples account to send out spam.

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