TWITTER ATTACK EXPOSES AWESOME POWER OF CLICKJACKING

Hard to stop, harder to resist

A worm that forced a wave of people to unintentionally broadcast messages on microblogging site Twitter shows the potential of a vulnerability known as clickjacking to dupe large numbers of internet users into installing malware or visiting malicious pages without any clue they’re being attacked.

The outbreak was touched off by tweets that led Twitter readers to a button labeled “Don’t click.” Gullible users (including your reporter) who clicked on the button automatically posted messages that posted yet more tweets advertising the link. The attacks persisted even after Twitter added countermeasures to its site and proclaimed the issued fixed.

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