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Posted on April 11, 2009 | tags

 
 

Tech: How an ugly worm named StalkDaily grabbed Twitter by the throat

  • Some evil person who hates you figured out that you can run Javascript code in Twitter bio fields. source
  • When an infected Twitter user’s profile is viewed on the Web, that Javascript executes. source
  • The code propagates quickly, causing lots of scary things to happen to Twitter users. source
  • Panic, fear and crying by Tweeters everywhere takes over the Interweb. PANIC! AHH! source