viernes, julio 17, 2009

The latest Twitter hack appears to have been the result of guessing the password of company co-founder Evan Williams via GoogleApps service, according to reports. The cracked password allowed the hacker to access company finances, biz dev plans, spreadsheets and personal info., including details of his wife's computer. The hacker went so far as to send some of the juicy details to two prominent tech blogs - TechCrunch in S.F. and Korben in France ­ and TechCrunch published a document that pegs Twitter's revenues at $1.54 billion by 2013. (By this time, Twitter hopes to have a billion users worldwide.) Analysts shrugged off the projections as "overly optimistic," in the words of eMarketer's Paula Verna. Security experts utilized the whole affair to remind users to choose their passwords carefully and to remind IT departments to beef up encryption efforts.