Friday, August 14, 2009

Twitter Account Used As Botnet Command Channel

Microblogging service Twitter has been one of the hottest topic for the past couple of weeks due to attacks putting more traffic than it could handle towards the service. Jose Nazario, the manager of security research at Arbor Networks made the latest add to Twitter related news by telling in the company's blog how he noticed Twitter account "upd4t3" (now suspended) been used to send commands to botnet of infected computers.

More details in Arbor Networks' blog.

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