If you are in your Twitter account that happened last week in the Twitter site, you notice something unusual: one or more of the Tweets full of strange mutilated in JavaScript.
Step by users (in thousands of them, apparently - including Sarah Brown, wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the assistant, the White House is working on Twitter, and myself) that the mouse or mouse with the cursor over the link is brought few surprises, random text popup to automatically generate a browser window, hinge on hardcore porn sites.
blocked in some cases (like me), the user is not aware of malicious code and the main Twitter retweet.
Graham Cluley of Sophos security firm discovered the error last week, little Sarah Brown of the portal page, Twitter, ah, ah, questionable content. ("Touching the previous tweet - this is very strange feed Twitter Twitter Brown shortly after the discovery that his account had been compromised.)
Error does not affect the use of third-party Twitter clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic - only Twitter.com.
The good news is that even if you are a victim of auto-attack to respond, it is obvious that the Twitter name or password has been compromised - even if it's a good idea, go ahead and change the password, once the dust may be approved.
Shortly before 10:00 ET on Tuesday to read the official blog to update Twitter, the status of the individual site managers and corrections XXS "- short for" cross-site scripting "-". Attack "After a few minutes to read updates on the message that the update is" all the patches. "
Then, someone from the error "onmouseover" Twitter this morning?