http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212700652 By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek January 5, 2009 Twitter's security melted down on Monday in the face of a phishing campaign directed at Twitter users and the hacking of Twitter's support software. The security failure has resulted in the temporary takeover of Twitter accounts associated with Facebook, Fox News, The Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and CNN's Rick Sanchez. The phishing campaign was first reported on Saturday. Tech blogger Chris Pirillo warned that he had received a direct message from one of his Twitter followers advising him to visit sites designed to look like Twitter's logon page that smelled "phishy." "The message bears a link to a Web site that only appears to come from Twitter but is of course a scam Web site where your account information will be stolen,"Symantec (NSDQ: SYMC) researcher Marian Merritt explained in a blog post. On Monday, Twitter acknowledged that it was having other security problems. "A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised this morning, and fake/spam updates were sent on their behalf," Twitter said in a blog post. "We have identified the cause and blocked it. We are working to restore compromised accounts." [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Mon Jan 05 2009 - 22:32:51 PST
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