Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week 97
adeelarshad82 writes "Days after a site update unleashed a Twitter cross-site scripting attack, the micro-blogging site was again hit with a bug that spread via questionable links. The offending messages appeared on a user's Twitter feed with 'WTF:' followed by a link. If you clicked on that link, you were taken to a blank page, but behind the scenes, the worm would post vulgar messages on your account that discussed, well, sex involving goats."
Goatse Worm? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Great - more 4Chan? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Call me hysterical if you will... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Great - more 4Chan? (Score:5, Insightful)
You have to use twitter and be the type of person who clicks on questionable links without regard.
Which of these links is "questionable":
http://tinyurl.com/2tx [tinyurl.com]
http://bit.ly/heezy [bit.ly]
http://xrl.us/bh2p3m [xrl.us]
That's what all of the links on Twitter look like, which are OK and which are questionable? How does one distinguish?
Re:Great - more 4Chan? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I guess this script is baaaad for you. (Score:3, Insightful)
The fucking point of the internet is klicking on links. Playing whack a mole with stuff like antivirus, antispam, antiwhatever suggests your operating system is broken. If you have to verify every damn link you could as well just go for chess by physical mail and penpals instead of the internet.
The user uses the internet as intended, the developers, not so much.
Re:I guess this script is baaaad for you. (Score:3, Insightful)
So you're saying that every single time a friend posts a link, you phone or email them and ask if you actually posted a link, and want a description of the page linked to?
Wow... you're a douche. If you were my friend, I'd have long since put you into a group that can't see my updates, or just de-friended you altogether.
Re:The early bird... (Score:2, Insightful)
OMG, I gotta retweet that!
-Tweet Tweet!
The Revolution (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Great - more 4Chan? (Score:3, Insightful)