How The Self-Retweeting Tweet Worked: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Twitter
Published June 11, 2014
This video has 2.37M views and 74.7K likes, ranking #1,888,002 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.
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2,371,119
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74,791
Comments
3,564
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http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - It should never have happened. Defending against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks is Web Security 101. And yet, today, there was a self-retweeting tweet that hit a heck of a lot of people - anyone using Tweetdeck, Twitter's "professional" client. How did it work? Ti…
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- June 11, 2014
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