The Twitter Website Is Under Attack

[Emit]

Twitter is all screwed up at the moment, thanks to a new security hole that's currently spreading like wildfire across the service. A JavaScript exploit is causing visitors of Twitter's website to inadvertently retweet spam, just by hovering over tweets.

The exploit takes advantage of the Javascript function onMouseOver, enticing users with colorful blocks of text and then retweeting those messages automatically when the block is moused over. In some cases the links launch pop up windows, in others users are being directed to spam and porn sites.

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http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/the-twitter-website-is-under-attack.php?ref=tn

[Ian David]

1. Twitter says it's been patched and fixed now.

http://twitter.com/mashable/status/25121332088

[frazzled]

2. And absolutely nothing of consequence was lost

Just saying.

[valerief]

3. Bwahahahaha!!!!

:rofl:

[Emit]

9. lol!

so funny!

[MadHound]

4. OH NOES! CIVILIZATION IS GOING TO COLLAPSE!

What will people do if they can't constantly update the public about every minute of their daily lives! Think of the children, WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!

Frankly I think it would be a good thing if Twitter and Facebook both exploded.

[Jamastiene]

11. Have you got your duct tape and plastic sheeting ready?

Fresh water?

This may be bigger than Y2k. We might be down for the count for a while. I'm not so sure we will ever recover civilization after this one. :P

[Lucian]

5. What am I going to do without knowing other people's opinions...

in 140 characters or less???

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!1111!!!1111

[MineralMan]

6. Twitter Hacked! Nobody Notices!

A new hack has struck Twitter, but users, often called "twits" can't actually see any difference in the site. This hack produces nonsensical spam posts on the site, which may explain its lack of impact. A sample of the spam produced by the hack includes many posts like this:

"M gng 2 stor. Shld I by Charmin or Scott TP?"

[Orrex]

7. Well, that wipes out CNN's news cycle for the day

Maybe the week.

[DainBramaged]

8. Twitter, communication for the mindless.......

:eyes:

[NeedleCast]

12. Obama

Pelosi
Kucinich
Boxer
Biden
Grayson
Clinton
Stephen Hawking
Bill Gates


Bunch of mindless gits, I suppose.

[NYCGirl]

15. And we shouldn't forget idiots like:

Roger Ebert (who says it's his primary mode of conversation these days)
Stephen Fry
The ACLU
Ezra Klein
Keith Olbermann
The American Film Institute
Nate Silver
Eric Bohlert (Media Matters)
John Cusack
Van Jones
Lizz Winstead
BBC Newsnight
and many more

[DainBramaged]

16. And what did we do before Twitter?

Another way to market to the public, and you just don't get it.


Information overload, especially the useless kind, has gotten out of control in the past three years, and that's why some of you are so enamored with social networking.


Step away from the computer, there is light OUTSIDE of your basements.

[NYCGirl]

17. Pot, kettle, black. NT

[Jamastiene]

10. w00t! Free porn!

I normally don't spend any time on Twitter, but if there might be free porn involved, I'm in. :evilgrin:

[Urban Prairie]

14. Free Porn?

And likely "free" malware and/or a virus as well to boot...

[Jamastiene]

20. It is called a joke.

You may snicker at it if you realize that it was a joke. Or you can be totally serious in a thread that is jovial in nature. Take your pick.

[Dr.Phool]

13. Good! Kill it!

Then go for facebook.

[JBoy]

18. I heard Palin's Twitter account was hacked

For a few minutes, it was tweeting intelligent and interesting stuff.

The Twitter admins fixed it though, and now it's back to its normal BS and lies.

[Bitwit1234]

19. Does anybody know what happened to google search

several days I was on the site researching a bunch of stuff and all of a sudden the script changed from normal to very small. It is still there and I almost need a magnifying glass to read it. It can't be my computer everything else is fine.