Twitter risks, Facebook threats trouble security pros

The explosive growth in social networking has positioned many security teams solidly between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, conscientious security executives cannot ignore the data loss and regulatory compliance risks to the corporation; on the other hand, security cannot politically survive by categorically objecting to other organizations innovative use of new business tools.

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Twitter vulnerability project highlights Bit.ly flaws

A security researcher highlighting vulnerabilities in third-party Twitter applications this month focused on several serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the popular Bit.ly link-shortening service.
Aviv Raff launched the Month of Twitter Bugs, showcasing the Bit.ly errors. Raff gave notice to Bit.ly programmers and in less than three hours the final flaw was patched.

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