Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker

blog.wired.com — An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama's, and the official feed for Fox News.

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Comments (4)

- m4tt
Twitter allowed the hacker to brute force the password?! That's just crazy, even my Wordpress blog freezes your access after 3 invalid tries.
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1. - nowsourcing
  @m4tt I'm with you man...pretty poor security. Also, most 3rd party apps also need your Twitter user/pass. That's poor form.
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- PoliticalMisfit
absolutely insane! And haven't people learned to create "hard" passwords., i.e. including a variety of letters , numbers, and symbols.......? *sheesh*
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- rageagainsttherobots
Twitter needs to get it together. They have the $.
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