Twitter – The Micro blogging & Social networking Giant has been reported to be under attack and so as its users. The news was reported by the Information security firm : Sophos in their Blog at the Link: Sophos article on this
Why:
The flaw on the website that allowed messages to pop-up and third party websites just by a mouse over!
What the risk:
The exploit is causing twitter accounts to retweet the message without the content of the users, and making use of Twitter’s strongest feature !!
Now What ?
Twitter has some good brains back at office:
They have announced that patch has been rolled out to fix the issue and its under control. We too hope so !!
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Thank you for the kind words !
cheers
Josh