TweetDeck, a popular tool for Twitter power users, has announced that it has fixed the XSS vulnerability used in a hack that took place this morning and that users should log out and log back in to complete the fix on their end.
A security issue that affected TweetDeck this morning has been fixed. Please log out of TweetDeck and log back in to fully apply the fix.
—
(@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
A cross-site scripting vulnerability makes it possible to trick your browser into running outside code. The only option available to protect yourself was to close out of the TweetDeck web app (or Chrome extension), which forced power users to make a tough decision:
@kylebrussell ugh I dont want to use Twitter.com OR get hacked on tweetdeck ugh—
Sam Colt (@scranecolt) June 11, 2014
The vulnerability was mostly used to force pop-ups onto people’s screens as in the image above. But had the vulnerability remained open long, the hacker taking advantage of it could have taken over user accounts. We’re keeping an eye out, but so far we haven’t seen any evidence that accounts were actually compromised in the attack.
USER Kelsey Proud
Свежие комментарии