pyrxtc
<font color=deeppink>Married 10-5-02<br><font colo
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- Jan 21, 2004
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and it happened to me when I tried to log in too.
http://gizmodo.com/5643732/the-twitter-website-is-under-attack
"Twitter is seriously screwed up at the moment, thanks to a new Javascript exploit that's currently slamming the service. Visitors of Twitter's website are inadvertently retweeting spam and porn to their followers, just by hovering over tweets.
The exploit takes advantage of the Javascript function onMouseOver, enticing users with colorful blocks of text"rainbow tweets"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. Update: Commenter RawheaD points out that one variant turns the whole browser window into a MouseOver area, so putting your mouse anywhere in the window will trigger a retweet.
Reader Mike sent a video of the exploit in action. As soon as he moves his cursor from the toolbar to the body of the Twitter.com page, it retweets the exploit and attempts to send a Direct Message."
It kept trying to retweet someone that I don't know. I'm staying off until they clean it up.
http://gizmodo.com/5643732/the-twitter-website-is-under-attack
"Twitter is seriously screwed up at the moment, thanks to a new Javascript exploit that's currently slamming the service. Visitors of Twitter's website are inadvertently retweeting spam and porn to their followers, just by hovering over tweets.
The exploit takes advantage of the Javascript function onMouseOver, enticing users with colorful blocks of text"rainbow tweets"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. Update: Commenter RawheaD points out that one variant turns the whole browser window into a MouseOver area, so putting your mouse anywhere in the window will trigger a retweet.
Reader Mike sent a video of the exploit in action. As soon as he moves his cursor from the toolbar to the body of the Twitter.com page, it retweets the exploit and attempts to send a Direct Message."
It kept trying to retweet someone that I don't know. I'm staying off until they clean it up.
