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Hacker News 2.0 – One Week Later
10 days ago I launched HN2.0. Some loved it, and some hated it. But few, it seems, ignored it. Since then the site has gotten tens of thousands of hits with essentially no promotional effort on my part, except for posting to HN, Twitter, Quora, and my blog about it (all free of charge).
Most of the feedback that I’ve gotten has been very positive, and a couple of site owners have even contacted me personally to ask about terms for getting their content featured prominently on the page or for wanting to establish an advertising arrangement.
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Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit
Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit
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bennyboy64 writes “An Australian teen has caused havoc on Twitter by discovering an exploit that hit thousands of users, including Barack Obama’s press secretary, and resulted in the tweets of a former British PM’s wife linking to hardcore porn, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Pearce Delphin, who is studying his last year at high school, said that he was surprised that ‘so many famous people got infected.’”
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Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users
Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users
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chicksdaddy writes “Twitter closed an ugly cross site scripting hole in its Web page Tuesday morning, but not until a fast moving attack, including at least two Twitter worms, compromised hundreds of thousands of user accounts. At its height, the attacks were hitting 100 Twitter users each second, putting estimates of the total number of victims at around 500,000 according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.”
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