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The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, said he gained access to Twitter’s administrative control panel by using a brute-force dictionary password cracker. Fortunately for him, the user turned out to be a member of Twitter’s admin, who’d chosen the weak password “happiness.

Twitter has got very serious security loopholes.

  • First no password protection for continuous retried attempts.
  • Second, what kind of admins would have used such a dictionary password.

Anyway, it was a fun for hackers community as they got the glimpse of famous celebrity such as Obama, Britney and even Fox News official account.

Source : Digg

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Comment by coffee buzz
2009-01-10 10:44:28

did the Twitter Admin change his password to “sadness” after he was hacked? haha… ok not funny

 
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