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Update (10:00 a.m. ET): A spokesperson for Twitter tells us "This should now be fully patched and is no longer exploitable." A new Twitter security flaw has been widely exploited on thousands of Twitter accounts, redirecting users to third-party websites without their consent.
Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw Affecting Thousands of Users [WARNING]
BREAKING: Post javascript into your status update on Twitter and you can make something appear in the pop-up as a user mouses over your tweet. This is clearly now causing havoc across the Twittersphere as users either do funny, rick-rollling type stuff, or scammers catch on to the exploit. It looks like many users are currently using the flaw for a joke but cybercrims could redirect users to third-party websites containing malicious code, or for spam advertising pop-ups. [Update: it appears the exploit could also fill and submit a status update form 'on your behalf' leading to it spreading to over 40,000 tweets within 10 minutes. Here are our top 5 ways to avoid and fix the onmouseover Twitter bug]
Warning: Mouseover tweets security flaw is wreaking havoc on Twitter [Updated]
21 September 2010 Last updated at 10:03 ET By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News Sarah Brown, wife of former PM Gordon Brown, was one of those affected Twitter has patched a flaw in its website that was being exploited to pump out pop-up messages and links to porn sites.
