Twitter disables widgets over security flaw
Popular microblogging site Twitter has temporarily disabled one of the features on its website following a security researcher’s warning of a programming flaw, leaving the login details of the users vulnerable to hackers.
Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, announced that his company had temporarily cut off access to a feature that lets users display Twitter updates on their websites by using Flash technology. “Our team has disabled the Flash widget while we look into the problem,” Stone said in an email.
A senior security analyst with Foreground Security of Orlando, Mike Bailey, said that the problem exploits a widely known vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash programming language. This was first discovered in 2006 but by and large it has been noted that the operators of many websites have failed to respond to those warnings.
Twitter, with millions of users including celebrities across arenas, is a soft target to hackers looking to spread malicious software.
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