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Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho Danchev

Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs

By | June 15, 2009, 11:00am PDT

Summary: A well-known security researcher plans to use the month of July to expose serious vulnerabilities in the Twitter ecosystem. The Month of Twitter Bugs, a project which launches on July 1, is the handiwork of Aviv Raff (left), a researcher known for his work on Web-based security issues.  Raff, who previously warned that the Twitter API [...]

A well-known security researcher plans to use the month of July to expose serious vulnerabilities in the Twitter ecosystem.

The Month of Twitter Bugs, a project which launches on July 1, is the handiwork of Aviv Raff (left), a researcher known for his work on Web-based security issues.  Raff, who previously warned that the Twitter API is ripe for abuse, says the project will disclose a  combination of cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaws that put Twitter users at risk of malicious hacker attacks.

Raff writes:

Each day I will publish a new vulnerability in a 3rd party Twitter service on the twitpwn.com web site. As those vulnerabilities can be exploited to create a Twitter worm, I’m going to give the 3rd party service provider and Twitter at-least 24 hours heads-up before I publish the vulnerability.

Raff is hoping to raise awareness for the Twitter API weakness that exposes the popular service to worm attacks if a single third-party Twitter service (like Twitpic) contains a vulnerability.

The [Month of Twitter Bugs] could have been easily converted to any other “Month of Web 2.0 service bugs”, and I hope that Twitter and other Web 2.0 API providers will work closely with their API consumers to develop more secure products.

Raff was among the first group of researchers to launch of a monthly vulnerability release project, partnering with HD Moore and others on the Month of Browser Bugs.  Since then, similar projects have targeted security deficiencies in Apple’s Mac OS, the PHP scripting language and ActiveX control issues.

Also read: Social networking attack targets enterprise data.

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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues.

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The most important disclosure is of my employment with Kaspersky Lab as a member of the global research and analysis team. Kaspersky Lab is a global company specializing in anti-malware and secure content management technologies. I do not own stocks or other investments in any technology company.

Biography

Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.

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RE: Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs
birumut Updated - 2nd May 2011
Well done! Thank you very much for professional templates and community edition
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