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Twitter Users Vulnerable to Security Flaw

January 22, 2010 by Stephen S Alison 

Twitter Users Vulnerable to Security FlawTwitter Users Vulnerable to Security Flaw – A flaw in Twitter’s website has left the login credentials of its users vulnerable to hackers, according to a security researcher who has asked the social media company to fix the problem.

According to a breaking news story in Reuters via Yahoo News, Mike Bailey, a senior security analyst with Foreground Security of Orlando, Florida, said he discovered the problem, which exploits a widely known vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash programming language.

Bailey said he informed Twitter of the flaw and it could take as little as a few hours to fix by changing the way the site is programmed.

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