[AFP] Micro-blogging service Twitter was targeted by a wave of attacks by a computer worm over Easter weekend, a co-founder of the web messaging company said.”On a weekend normally reserved for bunnies, a worm took centre stage,” Biz Stone said in a post on the official blog of the San Francisco-based start-up.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/14/2542006.htmTwitter Visited By Worms Instead Of Bunnies
Over the weekend, a computer worm attacked the Twitter messaging service in three distinct attacks, generating almost 10,000 spam tweets — as online posts are called in Twitter’s twee terminology — and compromising at least 190 accounts.In a post on the Twitter blog, company co-founder Biz Stone said that no sensitive information was compromised as a result of the attacks.
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