by Elinor Mills April 17, 2009
The teenager who created the worms that hit Twitter earlier this week has been hired by a Web application development firm and on Friday released a fifth worm on the microblogging site. Twitter fought off four waves of worm attacks last weekend and into Monday in which Twitter users were infected just by clicking on the name or image of someone whose account was infected. The worms appeared to do no damage other than spread to infected users' followers and modify profile pages. Michael Mooney, a 17-year-old living in Brooklyn, N.Y.,told CNET News that he wrote the worms because he was bored and wanted to bring Twitter's attention to the security holes. Mooney also grabbed the attention of Travis Rowland, founder of exqSoft in Hammond, Ore., who has hired the teen.
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