Twitter Hacked

Pacing Mule · 21-09-2010 1:28pm #1

Yes this has been posted in social network forums but no point in finding out about it after the fact.

Twitter has been hacked and anyone logging onto the main twitter page is opening the proverbial can of worms. Access through 3rd party apps is ok at the moment but don't log directly onto twitter.

Xavi6 · 21-09-2010 1:30pm

Very annoying.

Far too much effort to sign up for Tweetdeck

(In before 'Twitter is ghey' comments)

biko · 21-09-2010 1:30pm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/21/financial/f061254D44.DTL&tsp=1

Pacing Mule · 21-09-2010 1:31pm

From BBC

A flaw in the website of micro-blogging service Twitter is being used to pump out pop-up messages and links to porn sites.
Users only have to move their mouse over the link - not click it - to open it in the browser.
Thousands of Twitter accounts have so far posted messages exploiting the flaw including Sarah Brown, the wife of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The malicious links look like a random URL and contain the code "onmouseover".
This command - written in a programming language called Javascript - automatically directs users to another website, some of which contain pornography.
"There is no legitimate reason to tweet Javascript," Graham Cluley, a researcher at security firm Sophos, told BBC News.
He said that it looked like the initial vulnerability was exploited as a prank by users, but was now being spread by a worm, a self-replicating and malicious piece of code.
"Simply being logged into Twitter and viewing these pages could mean that your own Twitter account could be hacked," said Mr Cluley.
Until the flaw is fixed, users should use a third-party Twitter client - such as TweetDeck - rather than the Twitter.com website, he advised.
"Don't use the website," he said.
It is not the first time the service has suffered an attack.
In April 2009, another worm spread links to a rival site, again showing unwanted messages on infected user accounts.
Mr Cluley said that Twitter needs "much tighter control" over what users can contain in a tweet to prevent similar problems in the future.
Twitter was not immediately available for comment.

Cheap Thrills! · 21-09-2010 1:32pm

Meh.

Adam · 21-09-2010 1:33pm

fail.

allanb49 · 21-09-2010 1:33pm

ha,

MrStuffins · 21-09-2010 1:36pm

Just had a shower. Now to make a nice sandwich. Yum Yum!

Asphyxia · 21-09-2010 1:37pm

I would have been upset a a year ago but I don't really use it that much anymore so whatever!!

Pacing Mule · 21-09-2010 1:40pm

From reading up on it unprotected pcs could be hacked completely by the exploit. Can't understand why they haven't shut the site down completely.

kfallon · 21-09-2010 1:40pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Just had a shower. Now to make a nice sandwich. Yum Yum!

No 'tweeting' here as a substitute please

Kiokia · 21-09-2010 1:42pm

meh. :rolleyes:

NothingMan · 21-09-2010 1:45pm

@boards.ie: omg twtr wz ttly hkd. Fyi, bbq atm brb roflmao.

I can't use twitter. I'm way too much of a grammar nazi for it.

Xavi6 · 21-09-2010 1:47pm

Kiokia wrote: »

meh. :rolleyes:

Are your previous 12 posts as shite as that?

Twitter caters for under 140 character posts so you might just fit in.

Basq · 21-09-2010 1:50pm

Javascript injection? How could they not have considered that?

That's what you get for being to embed raw links so easily in Twitter.

Give it a go yourself kids. Go to here and paste this into the box on the left and then click the 'Edit and Click Me' button and hover over the link:

<html>
<body>

<h1><a href="#" onmouseover='window.location = "http://www.google.com/"'>Hover Over Me</a></h1>

</body>
</html>

Note - I'm only going to send you to Google, so any scat-and-donkey-loving fiends look elsewhere.

R0ot · 21-09-2010 1:53pm

Come on, facebook be next! :pac:

MrStuffins · 21-09-2010 1:53pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Are your previous 12 posts as shite as that?

Twitter caters for under 140 character posts so you might just fit in.

I agree,i believe that Twitter is very handy for keeping up people to date with every aspect of your life,and its easy to do in only 140 cha

Basq · 21-09-2010 1:54pm

R0ot wrote: »

Come on, facebook be next! :pac:

Tried it there.. doesn't work on Facebook unfortunately!

Yakult · 21-09-2010 1:56pm

DEATH TO ALL SOCIAL NETWORKS!!

thebigbiffo · 21-09-2010 1:58pm

R_H_C_P wrote: »

DEATH TO ALL SOCIAL NETWORKS!!

if you so much as lay a finger on me and my network of friends i'll hunt you down and rip your throat out.

close down FB, twatter, bebo et al if you like though...

MrStuffins · 21-09-2010 2:01pm

Twitter is a bit pointless, but i hate all this fake hate for Social Networks!

You all just pretend to hate the Social Networks because it might make you seem cool! But i guarentee you all have facebook accounts.

And those of you who don't only don't so you can tell people you don't have one and so you can think you seem cool!

The fact that you are all on Boards posting on After Hours means you like to chat on the internet. Pretending to be "cool" to strangers is ridiculous!

Xavi6 · 21-09-2010 2:03pm

R_H_C_P wrote: »

DEATH TO ALL SOCIAL NETWORKS!!

Boards.ie as well?

gizmo · 21-09-2010 2:17pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Very annoying.

Far too much effort to sign up for Tweetdeck

(In before 'Twitter is ghey' comments)

You don't need to sign up to Tweekdeck, just skip the sign-in page and select not to be bugged about it again.

Kimono-Girl · 21-09-2010 2:22pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Twitter is a bit pointless, but i hate all this fake hate for Social Networks!

You all just pretend to hate the Social Networks because it might make you seem cool! But i guarentee you all have facebook accounts.

And those of you who don't only don't so you can tell people you don't have one and so you can think you seem cool!

The fact that you are all on Boards posting on After Hours means you like to chat on the internet. Pretending to be "cool" to strangers is ridiculous!

Or they don't have them because they know they will have no friends on them!

event · 21-09-2010 2:27pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Twitter is a bit pointless

how so?

also, do people use the twitter homepage?

dont think ive every used it, i use twirl for my PC

jester77 · 21-09-2010 2:30pm

redirects to porn sites....

/subscribes to twitter

admiralofthefleet · 21-09-2010 2:31pm

whats twitter?

21-09-2010 2:34pm

Its now patched.

Procasinator · 21-09-2010 3:11pm

basquille wrote: »

Javascript injection? How could they not have considered that?

Ah now, it's not like they didn't consider XSS attacks at all, otherwise this flaw would have been discovered a long time ago (if was the case of simply using standard HTML).

It appears it was to do with the @ modifier, used to specify a user in tweets.

More information:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/XSS-Bug-Wreaks-Havoc-on-Twitter-157339.shtml

http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/twitter-mouseover-bug/

kfallon · 21-09-2010 3:13pm

R0ot wrote: »

Come on, facebook be next! :pac:

Let it blow up

pickarooney · 21-09-2010 3:15pm

I think Twitter marked the moment when I officially didn't understand what the young perople were doing these days.

MrStuffins · 21-09-2010 5:54pm

pickarooney wrote: »

I think Twitter marked the moment when I officially didn't understand what the young perople were doing these days.

Well, as soon as you sign up you will know. You will be updated on EVERYTHING the young people are doing these days. No matter how small or insignificant!

TimeToShine · 21-09-2010 6:06pm

Twitter is gh3y

angel01 · 21-09-2010 6:10pm

I think it shows how important using a twitter app is rather than going direct to www.twitter.com :eek:

Blazer · 21-09-2010 6:25pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Very annoying.

Far too much effort to sign up for Tweetdeck

(In before 'Twitter is ghey' comments)

it's worth it...

deelite · 21-09-2010 6:28pm

R0ot wrote: »

Come on, facebook be next! :pac:

According to my son "Facebook is the new Bebo - Dead"....:D

kfallon · 21-09-2010 6:33pm

I don't use Twitter but presume it's just stupid ramblings by somebody!

"Think I'll order in for dinner"

"Took a shower, pissed down the plughole"

"Just took a dump, found blood on the toilet roll, ooooh I just crushed a grape!"

etc, etc

Load of me hoop!

jd007 · 21-09-2010 6:37pm

kfallon wrote: »

I don't use Twitter but presume it's just stupid ramblings by somebody!

Bit like boards so :pac:

The Highwayman · 21-09-2010 7:00pm

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Yes this has been posted in social network forums but no point in finding out about it after the fact.

Twitter has been hacked and anyone logging onto the main twitter page is opening the proverbial can of worms. Access through 3rd party apps is ok at the moment but don't log directly onto twitter.

Meh who cares

Biggins · 22-09-2010 3:47pm

FANS of Joe Duffy and Jedward got more than they bargained for after an unexpected hacker attack on Twitter.
The X Factor twins, who have more than 80,000 followers on the site, were the victims of a perverted hacker.
The boys' hugely popular site was hacked yesterday with fans being inadvertently directed to a Japanese pornography site.
A link appeared on their page as a recent post, and it is believed that several of their fans caught an eyeful of the X-rated images.
However, due to their borderline obsession to the micro-blogging site, they were able to intervene relatively quickly and delete the link before more people were directed to the page

More: http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/jedward-go-xrated-in-porn-attack-2348202.html

I'd say that raised more than a few eyebrows for some! :pac:

Sykk · 22-09-2010 3:49pm

Hacker my arse.. They accidentally stuck it up themselves I'd say

_feedback_ · 22-09-2010 3:49pm

Biggins wrote: »

I'd say that raised more than a few eyebrows for some! :pac:

It'd raise the hair on the top of your head.

*runs

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 22-09-2010 3:49pm

Biggins you legend.............we all know it was you, the link came from the Japanese Cultural forum.

Saila · 22-09-2010 3:50pm

Brilliant if you follow that crap hate that

Tabnabs · 22-09-2010 3:51pm

Saila wrote: »

Brilliant if you follow that crap hate that

Words here random insert

Sanjuro · 22-09-2010 3:51pm

Not surprising really. In search of porn, I googled 'massive cunts' and the Joe Duffy and Jedward websites were top of the list.

Asphyxia · 22-09-2010 3:52pm

It didn't just happen to them a lot of famous people got hacked as well, there was a warning yesterday telling people not to go to the site they mustn't of saw it, or maybe ignored it.

moretothegirl · 22-09-2010 4:02pm

is it safe to log back on? I was on it half an hour ago because i didnt know about this!

kiddums · 22-09-2010 4:05pm

moretothegirl wrote: »

is it safe to log back on? I was on it half an hour ago because i didnt know about this!

No. Twitter will never be safe again.
Go outside and talk to your friends face to face like in the olden days.:pac:

22-09-2010 4:25pm

MrStuffins wrote: »

Twitter is a bit pointless, but i hate all this fake hate for Social Networks!

You all just pretend to hate the Social Networks because it might make you seem cool! But i guarentee you all have facebook accounts.

And those of you who don't only don't so you can tell people you don't have one and so you can think you seem cool!

The fact that you are all on Boards posting on After Hours means you like to chat on the internet. Pretending to be "cool" to strangers is ridiculous!

Or, because, you know, I might get up to stuff in my free time that i don't want anybody knowing about or, god forbid, seeing pictures of.....especially not my co-workers, aunts, nephews, parents, future employers etc.

Sykk wrote: »

Hacker my arse.. They accidentally stuck it up themselves I'd say

I'd say they "accidentally" stick it up themselves all the time.

redbuck · 17-12-2012 12:05pm

My twitter was recently attacked by a girl I know and she posted several sexually explicit tweets on my account posing as me, she admitted it to me, what I want to know is if I can pursue any type of legal action against her?

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