{"id":1543,"date":"2010-09-24T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/twitters-onmouseover-incident-resolved\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:35:37","slug":"twitters-onmouseover-incident-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/twitters-onmouseover-incident-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter&rsquo;s &quot;onMouseOver&quot; incident Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/twitterbirdsurfing2.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"twitterbirdsurfing (2)\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"200\" alt=\"twitterbirdsurfing (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/twitterbirdsurfing2_thumb.png?resize=200%2C200\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Earlier this week I reported a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/caution-twitter-mousover-security-flaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">security flaw<\/a> with &quot;onMouseOver&quot; links on the website only caused third party websites to popup whenever a user mousedover certain links. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes ago, I was checking on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter&#8217;s blog<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2010\/09\/all-about-onmouseover-incident.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> about the issue was posted later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>I checked several times through out&#160; 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\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Below is a quote directly from Twitter about this issue. For the long version check out the <a href=\"All about the &quot;onMouseOver&quot; incident\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> over at Twitters blog. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Image Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconfinder.com\/icondetails\/52947\/128\/bird_surfing_twitter_icon\" target=\"_blank\">Iconfinder.com &#8211; Twitter Bird Surfing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I reported a security flaw with &quot;onMouseOver&quot; links on the website only caused third party websites to popup whenever a user mousedover certain links. 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