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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SPAMMERS TARGET TWITTER

Twammers will punish you for your inane burblings

After undermining the usefulness of email, turning newsgroups into a forum for promoting sex sites and filling blog comment sections with adverts for penis pill adverts and get rich quick schemes, spammers have set their sights on a new target – Twitter.

Richard Stiennon of ThreatChaos.com has published an analysis explaining how spammers are lining up to exploit the popular micro-blogging service as a medium for junk mail messages.

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KANYE WEST BLAMES GMAIL HIJACK FOR BISEXUAL PORN HOAX

Hey, world: Let him be great

Kanye West says someone has taken control of his Twitter. Not to mention his Gmail and MySpace accounts.

The rap star says that someone is using all three services to spread false reports, including one that claimed he was open to launching a new career as a bisexual porn star.

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WWB 2.0RHEA HACK MISTAKEN FOR END OF UNIVERSE

Much aTwitter about nothing

Fail and You  Kids these days. Used to be, when you were mad at your parents or your professors, you’d write an email worm in Visual Basic and spread it around via Outlook clients.…

Hacks like that didn’t take a lot of talent, but they had some comic value. As a tech person, it’s entertaining to watch someone who’s not savvy work a machine that they think is “infected with a virus.” The more industrious evildoers wrote self-propagating worms that exploited vulnerabilities in common services, like the SQL Slammer worm that slowed internet traffic to a crawl on a Friday night when I was in college. Many of us nerds had to go outside and party instead of playing video games until 4AM. I know of several pregnancies that were a direct result of this vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server.

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