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Twitter has patched a hack which directed users to third-party sites, including adult websites. The company's status feed identified the hack as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, and said Twitter had fully patched the hack on Tuesday afternoon, hours after it appeared.
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Over 100,000 people are part of the Sophos community on Facebook.
Generating a news frenzy usually reserved for Apple product launches, pranksters turned Twitter into wormville this morning .
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Twitter was hit by a JavaScript hack Screenshot: @Wiggysan Kinugawa, under the impression that nothing had been done at Twitter to solve the problem he had flagged, noticed that it was still an issue in the newly redesigned Twitter interface , which was launched on 14 September. Early on Tuesday morning — the afternoon in Japan — he created a test account called 'Rainbow Twtr' in which the same code flaw was used to create blocks of colour in lieu of text tweets.Microblogging website, Twitter, became the victim of hackers and the reason, just for the sake of fun!
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While most reports of this loophole so far are of the fun and non-threatening variety, this method could just as easily be used by spammers and others with a more malicious intent. While it seems little damage has been done, what is a little scary about this hack is just how simple it was.