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Posted on April 11, 2009 | tags

 
 

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

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