Oh, is Twitter making the news as of late. And the latest is really not for a positive reason. If you, like many, are a Twitter user, you better be careful since it was just found out that they are vulnerable to a major cross-site scripting (XSS) hack vulnerability which could let someone in the hijack someone’s account. When the hacker does this, they could also use other exploit code to have a have a hey-day on the users computer.

Click a link, get pwned

Secure Science researchers Lance James and Eric Wastl posted evidence of this proof-of-concept exploit code. Although they did notify Twitter, they say they have yet to receive a response back. On the page offering proof-of-concept, there is a link where Twitter users can choose whether they want to be exploited or not. (I can see everyone yelling “pick me! pick me!”) If you do happen to click the decide exploitation is your thing, and click the button, you will then kick start the exploit. A posted message will show up saying “I just got owned!” on the Twitter XSSExploits account.

Wastl says that “The vulnerability is still active. Basically, we produce a link and if a Twitter user clicks on it, it allows us to hijack their accounts.”

South Korea is still the fastest Internet country on the planet, Microsoft software still has a big bullseye painted on it by hackers and password theft continues to be all the rage in the nether regions of the Web.

Many of the findings from Akamai’s State of the Internet Report for January-March 2008 shouldn’t come as a surprise to most technology watchers. But you might be scratching your head to learn that according to the web hosting company, Delaware is the state with the fastest Internet connections and Washington state – home to Microsoft and Amazon – is the slowest state, with the most connections at speeds of 256 kbps or slower.

Why would you fork out $19 bucks for the Apple iPod AV Cable when you don’t have to? We were looking around for cheaper solutions for getting video over to you TV and came across an article on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter.com. By following simple steps, you can get any AV cable (with yellow/red/white outputs) to work with your iPod. Read on to find out how.