Possible Twitter Security Flaw
Reuters is reporting that a security flaw in Twitter exposes users’ login credentials. It’s related to a known vulnerability in the Adobe Flash programming language. From the article:
Some of the comments I’ve seen are wondering why Twitter hasn’t fixed this. I was starting to wonder why the flaw still exists in the Flash programming language, then I realized Adobe can’t be responsible for programmers’ not keeping up.
I’m not an Adobe fan (I don’t use the Acrobat reader on any of my machines and I use Flash only because there’s not much point to surfing the web without it), but I have to say that Adobe has gotten a lot of undeserved bad press lately. The attack on attack on Gmail attributed to China was first attributed to a flaw in the Acrobat Reader, but later found to depend on a flaw in Internet Explorer.
Although the Reuters story didn’t mention this, if I used Twitter, I’d change my password.