Twitter worm spread via TweetDeck

If you use Twitter at all, you may have noticed a strange tweet showing up in your feeds yesterday. The tweet is actually a script that takes advantage of a bug in the popular desktop Twitter application TweetDeck.

The developers of TweetDeck took it offline briefly to deal with the problem, and the glitch was later confirmed to be fixed.

Anyone using TweetDeck is being told to log out and back in to make sure the fix takes effect.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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