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The Twitter service was widely exploited to launch pop-ups and browser windows, according to security firm Sophos. The hack exploited a JavaScript command called 'onmouseover' to launch pop-ups ...
Shock, horror and redaction-themed confusion on Twitter this morning, as an apparent javascript hole has seen the short-messaging service overrun by black boxes which can spawn pop-up messages and ...
A new piece of malware is spreading on Twitter by using injected JavaScript to hijack accounts.
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 ...
Building a paywall to capture revenue from heavy users: $40,000,000. Sidestepping the paywall with four simple lines of javascript? Priceless.
Twitter recently switched all of their mobile web front-end users to a modern, JavaScript-based web stack.
Earlier I posted that Google Analytics and other JavaScript-based tracking tools might be undercounting visits from Twitter. I've done some more digging, ...
Editor’s note: Péter Halácsy is co-founder and CTO of Prezi. Follow him on Twitter @halacsy. Startups identify with JavaScript. When you’re just starting out, you need to be dynamic. You ...
React was originally a project built at Facebook to manage its ads. Now it's used by Pinterest, Twitter, Asana, Uber, and more. Here's how it started.