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“Hi. This you?? LOL” Twitter Attack Snares Kevin Mitnick

By Prefect ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Historically the “Is this you?” style Twitter attack seems to be seeded by either an original break in to the victim’s Twitter account, or that user having provided his or her credentials to a phishing style web site made to look like Twitter as the attack propagates through the popular micro-blogging service. This time around however, the account of security consultant and former cracker Kevin Mitnick was caught up in this generic, untargeted Twitter “worm”.

Sir, the floor wishes to hear no more about your colon.

By Prefect ⋅ October 30, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The Twitter worm/twishing attack of the other day has caught some interesting casualties in its net, most notably Marco Rubio a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and a viable candidate for one of Florida’s Senate seats in 2010 and Zach Wamp, a candidate for Governor of Tennessee and a 14 year U.S. congressional representative.

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