Twitter users have been hijacked by malicious short domain name T.co stepped

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Twitter, the microblog ancestor, was recently targeted by hackers. According to foreign media reports, Twitter users have frequently suffered from an account hijacking attack based on JavaScript code. If you accidentally click on a malicious link in a Twitter message, your account may have been hijacked and a lot of Twitter messages will be posted via your account.

So far, a large number of Twitter users have been hit by this account hijacking event. Industry figures, only one of the malicious link was clicked more than 116,000 times. In this regard, Twitter said that the current defects have been revised and closed the Dev.twitter.com development server. But security researchers worry that other variants of the flaw may not be addressed.

As the leader in today's microblogging industry, Twitter has a user base that other internet giants cannot match. According to Dick Costello, Twitter's chief operating officer, Twitter has 190 million subscribers a month, and more than 65 million a day. Such a large number of users, even a small attack, may bring an earthquake-like impact on the entire internet world.

As early as June this year, Twitter's official blog has released a new t.co message that will be launched this year. Although the service is still in beta, but in order to reduce similar incidents again, Twitter official acronym service T.CO will be stepped, speed up the pace of the launch.

It is understood that the Twitter official domain name abbreviation service t.co with the previous domain name abbreviation service is different. Such as Twitter's earlier use of the domain name abbreviation service twt.tl, is mainly used to prevent spam information. Another kind of domain name abbreviation service twee.tt, is to protect "Tweet" brand. The new domain name abbreviation service t.co helps to reduce users ' vulnerability to malicious links. Before you forward links to other users, t.co will automatically check that the link is in the blacklist of malicious links.

In addition, the user's general concern: how the thumbnail link will be displayed? Twitter points out that the thumbnail link is limited to 140 characters in the text message, and the user sees the link summary or all links from the computer. This helps eliminate the confusion of the thumbnail links and lets users know what they are clicking on.

Relatively speaking, China's micro-blogging business is still in the early stages of development, the role of short domain name is limited to simplifying the content of micro-blog. It is understood that many well-known portals in order to compete for microblogging users, has begun to enable a short domain name, as a micro-blogging business or open the link to the portal site.

China's well-known IDC service providers in Connaught Network, the development and application of domain name abbreviation services has become the trend of development and expansion of micro-blogging career. First of all, the site operators should be based on user needs, to provide anti-spam information and the use of malicious links and other functions of the domain name abbreviation service. This will enhance user stickiness and user experience.

In addition, the micro-Bo Web site and phishing website is easily confused, resulting in a lot of people can not distinguish, and even mistakenly entered the phishing website is not aware of. Therefore, the site operators to choose a short domain name should be in advance of the malicious link blacklist to be screened, strict screening out the short domain name difficult to cause trouble, avoid blindly see "short" on the collection.

Although the Twitter user account has been hijacked, Twitter has shut down the dev.twitter.com development server, but the hidden worries can not be ignored. How to get users to regain confidence seems to be only waiting for the Twitter official acronym service T.CO to be available to answer.

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