Twitter Explains 'onMouseOver' Security Breach
Bob Lord from the Twitter security team explained the security breach on Twitter.com that occurred early Tuesday morning — in which users who hovered over links were directed to suspect Web sites and spam messages were automatically generated and retweeted — in a post on the Twitter Blog:
The short story: This morning at 2:54 a.m. PT, Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half-hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it.
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