Any recent celebrity-related compromises I'm aware of having been, as you said, "media 'hacking'". The last issue I'm aware of that resulted from actually taking advantage of a security flaw in our system was the "Mikeyy" worm that was going around for a weekend several months ago. We've done a lot of security work since then, and there's more in progress.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 15:40, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > > I heard the other day that in the wake of the MJ stuff, a few high profile > celebs accounts where hacked. Is this media "hacking" and there were just > weak passwords, or their email accounts were compromised, or were these real > live hacks where someone brute forced, or did otherwise nefarious acts to > get in. > > Some clarification on these events would help to let us know where and how > people are getting in, so we can tighten things up on our end. If the hacks > are just email accounts being gotten into, there is nothing twitter apps > need to do. If it is something else, there may be other things we can do to > keep the accounts safe. > > Thanks. > > On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Alex Payne wrote: > > I wanted to point out a blog post ( >> http://apiblog.twitter.com/security-best-practices-for-twitter-apps) that >> addresses the coming "Month of Twitter Bugs". Long story short: Twitter is >> in the loop, we've got security at the forefront of our daily work right >> now, and we're available to help if your application is identified as >> vulnerable or compromised. >> >> Please check out the new wiki page ( >> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Security-Best-Practices) and let us know >> what's missing. Thanks! >> > > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
