Category: IT News

The Mikkey Worm – This worm is getting out of hand Twitter

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“This worm is getting out of hand Twitter” – Mikkey. There was a swarm of messages flooding the twittersphere in the past couple of days. This twitter worm apparently hasn’t been controlled yet by twitter as the flood of messages that apparently coming from Mikkey, continues.

I, myself, lucky for me haven’t been pested by this Mikkey work as it only affects those who uses the web application of twitter (apparently). I use a third party web apps for firefox (twitterfox).

Here’s another way of protecting your self from this Mikkey worm from startupmeme.com:

Other steps that you can take to ensure safety is to reset your password, disable Javascript and clear cache. You can also keep a check via Twitter Status Blog or follow @spam for further updates. This is very bad for Twitter’s reputation especially when FriendFeed is getting better by the day. I would simply hate unwanted messages in bulk bothering me or my followers.

Steps to fix it:
1. Change your hex color/reset it
2. Change your bio and change the URL
3. DONT click on any profile that is suspicious and use another twitter client like TweetDeck instead of the Twitter website

Sun Microsystems Owns Mysql AB

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Here’s the news that everyone involved in IT should know by now – Sun Microsystems bought Mysql AB!

For those who doesn’t know, MySQL AB is  the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.

From the blog of Sun Microsystems’ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz‘ :

We announced big news today – our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we’re acquiring MySQL AB.

we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP.

With this ground breaking event, I’m sure there will be some far out development in Mysql/Sun in the near future.