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Twitter.com was once again the brunt of a rapidly spreading worm after attackers exploited a vulnerability in "onMouseOver" JavaScript in order to bombard users with serial pop-ups and ...
Hopefully Twitter will shut down this loophole as soon as possible – disallowing users to post the onMouseOver JavaScript code, and protecting users whose browsing may be at risk. Some users are also ...
Google is constantly combatting search engine spammers (I know some to do not like to be called this, so sorry). This past update, they began blocking an other type of spam named onmouseover ...
Users are being advised to avoid the main Twitter website after an exploit that allows tweets to redirect users to other websites or repost themselves repeatedly.
Twitter said that the XSS flaw -- known as the 'onMouseOver' flaw for the type of JavaScript used in the attack -- was one that the company had already identified and patched in August, but was ...
Javascript command used to distribute malware. Australian teenager Pearce Delphin has been credited with discovering the onMouseOver scripting vulnerability that hit twitter.com last night.
It’s been over 24 hours now since many Twitter users found that their pages had become infested by messages spreading virally across the network.
The attack took place after the main Twitter web interface failed, allowing the ‘onMouseOver’ JavaScript command to take place. This meant any user moving their mouse over the command would be ...
Today thousands if not millions of Twitter users were affected by the onmousover Twitter exploit which created malicious pop-ups and could also fill and send a status update 'on your behalf'. How ...