Twitter Has Security Issues - Again

Twitter can be fun and some say it helps with their business but there sure have been a lot of security issues on their site.

There is now a video up on Dave Naylor's blog that talks about another Twitter exploit - embedded below.


Slater says - Twitter has knowledge, just haven' done anything about it - anyone who simply sees your tweets when you're logged into Twitter, can run codes in your browser which takes over your account and can lead to malware spreading, impersonation, or whatever other horrible thing the hacker decides to do.

Slater says these steps can prevent this from happening:

* If you’re not logged in to Twitter, there’s no opportunity to steal your details or impersonate you, however malicious code could still send you to other websites or otherwise annoy you, so it doesn’t completely fix the problem.

* Unfollow anyone you don’t know or don’t trust that could be exploiting this. Who’s to say they’re not already stealing your details? If you don’t see their tweets they can’t harm you.

* If you use something other than the Twitter website to view your tweets, you should be fairly safe, though without looking at each one individually it’s hard to be sure. Still, you’re likely to be pretty safe this way.

A side note: As for us, we are not going to log into Twitter any longer. Too many things have happened to our computer since we joined last spring. From now on, out only presence there will be our auto-feeds. It is simply not cost effective for us to risk our computer to this kind of thing.