Mikeyy Explained

Mikeyy is the name of a computer worm that spread approximately 10,000 automated messages (or "tweets") across social networking and microblogging website Twitter.com[1] in four discrete attacks "between 2 AM Saturday April 11, 2009 Pacific time and early Monday (April 14, 2009) morning" before it was "identified and deleted".[2] The tweets promoted a website called StalkDaily.[3]

The worm was written by 17-year-old Michael Mooney who operates a website to point out vulnerabilities in Twitter while advertising his website.[4]

References

  1. Web site: Teen claims responsibility for disrupting Twitter . CNN.com . 2009-04-13 . 2014-08-19.
  2. Web site: Albanesius . Chloe . Twitter Squishes Worms; Author Owns Up | News & Opinion . PCMag.com . 2009-04-13 . 2014-08-19.
  3. Web site: Twitter Users Get Stalked By Mikeyy Worm . News.sky.com . 2009-04-12 . 2014-08-19.
  4. Web site: 17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm (April 12, 2009) . Bnonews.com . 2009-04-12 . 2014-08-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140901083351/http://www.bnonews.com/news/242.html . September 1, 2014 .

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