It all started with someone finding a loophole in Twitter for Web Browser. Apparently, Twitter can “recognize” Javascript even though in text form when viewed with web browser.

Engadget called it the Rainbow Tweet incident. I think it is quite appropriate as the incident started with someone that found a security loophole (XSS – Cross-site scripting) and made a colorful tweet that when you do a mouse over, will reveal a pop up box with text.

Then other users started to take advantage of this security flaw to add retweet function on the mouse over. And all hell broke loose. Anyway, good news is that the matter is contained by Twitter team.

Read the Full Details here

How did this incident affect you? I hope to know. 🙂

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