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ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

Malicious 'Rainbow Tweets' Plague Cheep Through 'onMouseOver' Flaw

If you frequently use the official Cheep website, here's a bit of aegis advice: don't. At atomic not for a little while. A afresh apparent blemish on the website has accustomed pranksters and ne'er-do-wells to use your abrasion movements (not clicks, apperception you) to activate pop-up letters and websites. Spammers are actively base the "onMouseOver" blemish in adjustment to amount sites and to beset accounts into announcement the letters that advance the links. The concern, though, is that awful actors could use the blemish to advance malware and absolutely annex accounts.One of the high-profile accounts to accept been compromised belongs to Sarah Brown, wife of aloft British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Brown's annual acquaint a bulletin advertisement a hotlink that popped up a hardcore porn site. The a lot of accepted use of the Javascript blemish appears to be alleged "rainbow tweets" (seen above), which abstruse their capacity with blocks of blush and thereby attract users to bang on, or at atomic hover over them. Cheep confused bound to application the flaw, but not afore it became a trending affair (under 5 altered headings). Still, we accept to accord the website acclaim for shutting down the accomplishment aural hours of its discovery.

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