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Twitter: StalkDaily/Mikeyy worm

April 24, 2009 by Carlos Dagorret  
Filed under Internet

Mike Mooney, a 17-year-old teenager started the ball rolling. After finding a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Twitter application, he altered the code on four Twitter accounts to leverage the new-found vulnerability. Once set up, it was just a matter of waiting, kind of like fishing. Finally someone viewed the profile web page belonging [...]