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Earlier this week I reported a security flaw with "onMouseOver" links on the website only caused third party websites to popup whenever a user mousedover certain links.
A few minutes ago, I was checking on Twitter’s blog to see what the status was on the security flaw and see if they made a statement as to what truly was going on. I found that Twitter has already fixed this issue but their blog post about the issue was posted later in the day.
I checked several times through out the week on this issue and no other sites where reported this issue to be resolved. I checked back with Twitter the next morning and had not seen a article about the issue. But looking at the timestamp, they posted a status about this issue late morning on September 21, 2010. I am not sure how missed this. Sorry about that guys…
Below is a quote directly from Twitter about this issue. For the long version check out the article over at Twitters blog.
This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved. And, by 9:15 am PDT, a more minor but related issue tied to hovercards was also fixed.
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That was a major issue – made it to the local papers here. Glad it got resolved.