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Today morning, a security vulnerability hits the twitter via Tweetdeck. A “cross-site scripting” (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered on Twitter’s Tweetdeck client, leaving millions of users open to account hijacking and more.
The official Tweetdeck account have warned about the vulnerability and recently team have mentioned that the vulnerability have been patched.
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 (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
Tweetdeck have mention that the issue has been fixed, and were asked people should log out and back in to their accounts to get the patch updates.
But after taking the above steps, some users are saying that logging out does not fix the problem.
Welp. Logged out of Tweetdeck, logged back in, and got this: So clearly Twitter’s “fix” does not work! pic.twitter.com/Sv7bpvaqfQ
— Matt Rosoff (@MattRosoff) June 11, 2014
After the report of not fixing the vulnerability, TweetDeck team have taken down the Tweekdeck service for some time to fixed the vulnerability.
We’ve temporarily taken TweetDeck services down to assess today’s earlier security issue. We’ll update when services are back up.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
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