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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 17 > Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCs

Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCs

By Jordan Robertson / The Bulletin
August 17, 2009

SAN JOSE, Calif. " Twitter's been having a rough couple of weeks.

A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last week discovered another, unrelated, problem.

At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network of a couple hundred infected personal....

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