It's the message that tens of thousands of Twitter.com users could have used Tuesday morning after a rapidly spreading worm pummeled them with pop-ups, spam and pornographic tweets and then re-tweeted ...

Users are being advised to avoid the main Twitter website after an exploit that allows tweets to redirect users to other websites or repost themselves repeatedly. The attack took advantage of the main ...

Google is constantly combatting search engine spammers (I know some to do not like to be called this, so sorry). This past update, they began blocking an other type of spam named onmouseover ...

The massive Twitter "onMouseOver" attack on Tuesday may have been triggered by a Japanese hacker who claimed he wanted to expose a cross-site scripting flaw on the site.

Australian teenager Pearce Delphin has been credited with discovering the onMouseOver scripting vulnerability that hit twitter.com last night. Users were urged to switch to third-party clients as ...

Hopefully Twitter will shut down this loophole as soon as possible – disallowing users to post the onMouseOver JavaScript code, and protecting users whose browsing may be at risk. Some users are also ...

The attack took place after the main Twitter web interface failed, allowing the ‘onMouseOver’ JavaScript command to take place. This meant any user moving their mouse over the command would be ...

Users were urged to use third party clients rather than Twitter.com until Twitter blocked the onMouseOver Javascript command. Got a news tip for our journalists? Share it with us anonymously here.

Update: Twitter says it has fixed a dangerous flaw that turned the Twitter Website into minefield Tuesday of potentially dangerous links. The company tweeted early Tuesday “The XSS attack should now ...