Twitter has been the victim of a massive hacking and phishing attack. Over 30 member accounts were hijacked, including those of President-elect Obama, Britney Spears and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez. Fox news’ twitter feed was also hijacked and used to post “Bob O’Reilley is gay” comments over supposedly legitimate Fox news twitter feeds. Many hijacked accounts are being used to spread links to web pages that attempt to install malware on unsuspecting user’s computers, turning them into bots which can be controlled by cyber-criminals.
Here are some links to the various incidents:
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/monday-morning-madness.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/twitter-hit-by-hacker-phishers/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_security_collapses_oba.phphttp://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Twitter-Phishing-Scam-Takes-New-Turn-With-Promises-of-iPhone/
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