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Twitter onmouseover security vulnerability widely exploited. Demo from Sophos

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Uploaded by on Sep 21, 2010

A security vulnerability on Twitter is being actively exploited. More details at: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/09/21/twitter-onmouseover-security-flaw-...

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  • maria ozawa!!!

  • OMG that is really bad for a website so big, all you need to use is htmlspecialchars will be safe then.

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  • @ThePsychoticScyth396 true true. 

  • @rahxephon52 thats because they're ment for pc. cause gee, idk, MORE PEOPLE USE PC!!

  • look @ mac tanking those exploits.

  • @MilesGuitarist It was a technique where you base64 encoded a program into the browser. When someone visited the website it automatically ran the program that was encoded.

  • @ddstar whats that?

  • @Psypherion I think it is

  • is this possible only on twitter? it seemed like a javascript ui trigger..... which should work on like 99% on all websites on the internet?

    why is this called the "twitter"-exploit?

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