So Much Happiness on Twitter
Recently, over the past couple of days, there has been heavy discussion on twitter about the security of the accounts as 33 high-profile accounts were hacked and started posting irrelevant tweets. Although these accounts were quickly locked, it did raise the question – “How Safe are our Accounts?”
As it turns out, not so much…
The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter’s administrative control panel by pointing an automated password-guesser at a popular user’s account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter’s support staff, who’d chosen the weak password “happiness.” Cracking the site was easy, because Twitter allowed an unlimited number of rapid-fire log-in attempts.
So all of you with stupid, lame dictionary words as your password, it’s high time you changed it to something more complex. You’ll never know what hit you.