Twitter Security Flaw Caused by Australian Teenager, Twitter onMouseOver Hack Admitted
If Twitter is down in your place and want to know more about a Twitter security flaw, read on. Pearce Delphin, a 17-year old dude from Australia admits he unintentionally started the massive hacker attack on Twitter two days ago which affected million of users. He confessed he published the Javascript code which showed how easy it is to create automatic XXS or cross-site scripting over Twitter’s vulnerable website. His code was then used by malicious hackers and modified it to take over millions of twitter accounts that directed people to Japanese p*rn sites or did millions of retweets!
Twitter Got Hacked! Twitter Security Flaw Getting Widespread via “MouseOver” Function
Twitter got hacked and it could be down if the Twitter security flaw isn’t fixed immediately. The Twitter hack was made possible via the Twitter security hole in the mouseover function. An innocent hovering of the mouse pointer on a link will activate this hack. This Twitter security flaw was discovered by Sophos, a security company constantly monitoring malicious activities online.
New Twitter Makes Embedding of Youtube Videos and Uploading of Photos a Breeze
Have you noticed the New Twitter homepage lately? It’s not just the new design of the homepage that makes the new Twitter a successful social networking site. The new Twitter is about a healthier interaction between members. Guess what? Twitter’s about to be re-modeled!
Twitter Down Because It Is Under DDOS Attack and Still Not Working
Twitter is still down and we got worried a bit because of the reason – a DDOS attack. Twitter, being down this long is really bothersome. First a social network as huge and as popular as Twitter is not uncommon to be spammed. But a DDOS attack? Come on! Hackers really know their way around security holes and this is a terrible security issue. Read more
Current Twitter Status: Twitter is Down!
Is Twitter Down? We think that Twitter is down and that’s really sad. We have been using Twitter for a while now and it’s the first time it’s down. As far as we know, the present Twitter website status is down. No wonder the Twitter blog and login page cannot be accessed. For one we are wondering who’s spamming us on Twitter today. lol!