Anyone checking twitter.com this morning was probably greeted with a mess of JavaScript, mouseover effects, and spam retweets, after a flaw in the site's handling of hyperlinks allowed attackers ...

I believe that one SEO had convinced clients either to put spammy Javascript mouseover redirects, doorway pages that link to other sites, or both on their clients' sites.

Twitter mouseover incident A security flaw on Twitter.com resulted in a "mess of JavaScript, mouseover effects, and spam retweets" this week.

Australian Pearce Delphin has admitted he kicked off the worm which sank Twitter for five hours. He has apologised, admitting he did not realise what his discovery could be used for.

Hackers believed to work for Russia have started using a new code execution technique that relies on mouse movement in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to trigger a malicious PowerShell script.

The solution: disable JavaScript on specific websites By disabling JavaScript on some sites, you still get to use JavaScript on sites that break without it, while benefiting from improved privacy ...