Oct 01
Here’s how the current security ecosystem works: benevolent or malevolent security experts find a vulnerability, the tech press covers it, users get upset, and the vulnerability is patched quickly. Today, a key Twitter vulnerability has been made public, and we’d sure like to see it fixed. John Herrman over at Buzzfeed details the seedy underbelly of the internet where Twitter handles are stolen and sold, often for under $100. The scariest part? These Twitter handles are being hijacked with the most basic hacker technique: brute-forcing the password on Twitter’s own public site.
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