TweetDeck Hacked

redletterdave (2493036) writes TweetDeck, Twitter's tool for real-time tracking and engagement of posts, was found to be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS), a type of computer vulnerability commonly found in web applications that allows hackers to inject script into webpages to access user accounts and important security information. As a result of the hack, a tweet with an emoticon heart is being shared more than 38,000 times — automatically.

Hmmm.

[SeaFox]

Yet another security venerability involving hearts I see.

Not really a hack

[hsmith]

More like exploited. Failure to escape content, which you should have been doing for the last 15 years, is hardly hacking.

Re:Not really a hack

[Hsien-Ko]

Gizmodo and aren't hacks can't belong in the same sentence.

Re:Not really a hack

[chrylis]

The code that I saw, which basically reached out of its container and hit the "retweet" button on itself, was definitely a clever hack.

Re:

[Agent ME]

What exactly do you think most hacks are?

Next headline:

[geekoid]

everything everywhere has been hacked. Deal with it.

"computer vulnerability"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Slow down, poindexter. That's a bit technical!