TOKYO: This week’s Twitter attack that caused a widespread headache for the micro-blogging service appears to have been triggered by a Japanese computer hacker who says he was only trying to help.
The attack, which emerged and was shut down within hours on Tuesday morning, involved a “cross-site scripting” flaw that allowed users to run JavaScript programs on other computers.
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