A security researcher is warning that the Twitter API can be trivially abused by hackers to launch worm attacks. The red-hot social networking/microblogging service has been scrambling to plug cross-site scripting and other Web site vulnerabilities to thwart worm attacks but, as researcher Aviv Raff points out, it s much easier to misuse the. Twitter API as a weak link to send worms squirming through Twitter. Read the full story on Zdnet.com: Researchers predict software security will continue to struggle to keep up with cloud and IoT in the new year.
Source: https://threatpost.com/twitter-api-ripe-malware-worm-abuse-052609/72758/