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Twitter patches onMouseOver vulnerability

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 6:49PM EST
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Well that didn’t take long. Twitter hath just tweeted that they have identified and patched the JavaScript, onMouseOver, cross-site-scripting vulnerability that had been running amuck on its website this morning. It is once again safe to use twitter.com to let your fake friends know what you are eating, thinking, and doing.

UPDATE: Bob Lord, Twitter’s security chief, has put up an official blog post explaining exactly what happened this morning. You can read that article here.

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