A new Twitter worm is taking aim at celebrity accounts. It hacks into profiles and sends fake status updates to the account’s followers. Researchers say Ashton Kutcher and Oprah may be among those infected. The worm is a new variant of the Mikeyy worm that hit over Easter weekend, compromising nearly 200 accounts and sending more »

It is a tough economy and the tech sector has been hit particularly hard. Finding a job is getting tougher, unless you devise and unleash a worm that grabs attention, that is. Take the plight of Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, for example. This is the teen who claims he was behind the Twitter worm just a more »

Social networking has become such a popular target due to the huge numbers of people using them these days and the viral nature of them. By that I mean the way people are willing to pass links, videos, and apps around to their friends. Anyone on Facebook knows that third party apps are wildly popular, and if you have a large friends list you probably get tons of drinks, gifts, glitter, snacks, and other offerings sent to you each day. The problem is some of them are malicious, such as the worm that hit the service recently, sending fake notifications announcing your friend had reported you to Facebook for terms of service violations. The friend’s name was included, resulting in lots of angst, anger, and unfriending.

If you used Twitter this past weekend, you may have received messages like “Mikeyy I am done…,” “MikeyyMikeyy is done,” and “Twitter please fix this, regards Mikey.” New York teen Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney has reported to CNET News that he’s responsible for these worms and created the worms out of boredom. Mooney went on to more »