Twitter is in the spotlights again. Mikeyy Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.com, a Twitter alternative, admitted to hacking his giant competitor by implementing a series of worms. The first one propagated itself through twitter making every affected user tweet about StalkDaily. Mikeyy certainly got the advertising and page views he was looking for. Even more, Mookey even got a job as a security analyst following the worm series.

Mikeyy's worms are a good example of how CSRF and XSS can be combined to create a strong blended attack,

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