A security researcher is warning that the Twitter API can be trivially abused by hackers to launch worm attacks.
The red-hot social networking/microblogging service has been scrambling to plug cross-site scripting and other Web site vulnerabilities to thwart worm attacks but, as researcher Aviv Raff points out, it’s much easier to misuse the Twitter API as a “weak link” to send worms squirming through Twitter. Read the full story [zdnet.com]
A security researcher is warning that the Twitter API can be trivially abused by hackers to launch worm attacks.
The red-hot social networking/microblogging service has been scrambling to plug cross-site scripting and other Web site vulnerabilities to thwart worm attacks but, as researcher Aviv Raff points out, it’s much easier to misuse the Twitter API as a “weak link” to send worms squirming through Twitter. Read the full story [zdnet.com]
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