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Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCs
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Mon Aug 17 10:06:53 2009
Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCs
By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer
Aug 14, 2009
www.yahoo.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Twitter's been having a rough couple of weeks.
A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last
week discovered another, unrelated security problem.
At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network
of a couple hundred infected personal computers, mostly in Brazil.
Networks of infected PCs are referred to as "botnets" and are
responsible for so much of the mayhem online, from identity theft to
spamming to the types of attacks that crippled Twitter.
For the rest of the article, see:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090814/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_twitter_the_botmaster
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