Twitter Hacker Hired

Is this a sign of things to come?

[tangor]

As reported in The Register:

The self-confessed author of the recent Twitter worm has scored a potentially lucrative job doing security analysis and web development work.

Michael "Mikeyy" Mooney, a 17 year-old student from Brooklyn, New York, created a worm that exploited cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in a ham-fisted attempt to promote a site he ran, called StalkDaily. The worm created thousands of automated tweets and spawned a number of copy-cat attacks.

[theregister.co.uk...]

[blang]

Scumbag.

[Key_Master]

What comes around goes around. Looks like he's been hacked back. :)

[trillianjedi]

This is quite common - the anti-virus software vendors also frequently hire people over from the dark side.

I guess it's the "to catch a thief" priniciple.