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

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.

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.

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'm trying to set up a simple mouseover so that the second image is an image map. Setting up the mouseover to switch images is easy enough, and the image map works on its own, but I cannot get the ...

Disable JavaScript here to get rid of it in Google Chrome on Android. On the same page, you can tap Add Site Exception, type the URL, and hit Add to allow JavaScript to run on specific websites.

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 ...