Kaspersky Lab researchers report that criminals are selling hacked Twitter user names and passwords for hundreds of dollars.

"Asking prices can vary greatly, depending on the name of the account and the number of followers, but attackers are looking for an initial, trusted, stepping stone from which to send malicious Twitter messages and, ideally, infect more machines," writes Computerworld's Robert McMillan.

"[One] Twitter account, with just over 320 followers, was offered at $1,000 in an underground hacker forum," McMillan writes.

Click here to read the Computerworld article.