Comments on: 17-year old boy responsible for Stalk Daily Worm in Twitter

By: luis

luis — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:02:23 +0000

THIS GUY MUST FIND A GIRLFRRIND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

By: Vikash Dhankar

Vikash Dhankar — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:11:18 +0000

Thanks for this information, The twitter is growing like anything, But one thing should be keep in mind that, the people are more likely to disturb the momentum of growing network.
Thanks , I would be take care and make my friends know about this worm.

By: How to get rid of Mikeyy worm in Twitter? | Twitter

How to get rid of Mikeyy worm in Twitter? | Twitter — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:06:25 +0000

[...] was yesterday attacked by a worm – Stack Daily worm which was all caused by a 17 year old kid who accepted that he was responsible for everything that [...]

By: Harish

Harish — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:45:55 +0000

Huh I too got infected by that worm…..Dunno what to do ?

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:30:59 +0000

Thanks for your the information’s.
Recently spamming form @PragueBob twitter a/c also suffered from it.
Thanks again for your tweet.

By: How two 17-year olds changed the world over the past few hours — MISTERDIBSTER

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:57:53 +0000

[...] To those who use that service called Twitter, you might have heard the whole franticness of the Stalk Daily worm (the computer variant and not the one that the Tweet Tweet bird eats). What the worm basically does is to hijack your Twitter account and begin to repeatedly spam tweets directing users to the StalkDaily website. All the techy blogs have pretty much covered it and if you are interested to find out more, its on TechCrunch and a rather comprehensive explanation is also on Mashable. Mikeyy Mooney, the person behind this said – twitter logo“I am the person who coded the XSS which then acted as a worm when it auto updated a users profile and status, which then infected other users who viewed their profile. I did this out of boredom, to be honest. I usually like to find vulnerabilities within websites and try not to cause too much damage, but start a worm or something to give the developers an insight on the problem and while doing so, promoting myself or my website -via the worldwideweb blog [...]