How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees.

Buchanan, William J

How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees.

Buchanan, William J

Authors

Prof Bill Buchanan B.Buchanan@napier.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

TweetDeck, a Twitter app with millions of users, is back online after a rather surprising security scare. For several hours, the service was taken down all because a 19-year-old user tried to add a cute heart to his messages.

Citation

Buchanan, W. J. (2014). How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees

Publication Date	2014
Deposit Date	Dec 3, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Jul 30, 2019
Keywords	Data security; Twitter; hacks; worms; website security;
Public URL	http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7336