Twitter temporarily pulls TweetDeck due to security issue

Twitter experienced to some issues with the app TweetDeck today; the popular social media dashboard for managing Twitter accounts was brought offline and then briefly brought back up before going down again. The whole time Twitter was rushing to roll out a fix which was supposed to patch the vulnerability.

According to the quote in USAToday, Trey Ford from security firm Rapid7 stated, "Tweetdeck appears to have jumped on this issue and patched it, but we're still seeing it spread like wildfire through Twitter," he goes on to say, "This vulnerability very specifically renders a tweet as code in the browser, allowing various cross site scripting (XSS) attacks to be run by simply viewing a tweet. The current attack we're seeing is a "worm" that self-replicates by creating malicious tweets."



It was originally reported that the vulnerability only affected the app's desktop program and only when it was run on Google's Chrome browser. However users on other platforms, including Internet Explorer 9, are also reporting getting hacked.



As of right now TweetDeck says that all is good to go and secure, but if you haven't done so yet, you should logout and log back in just to make sure.

Some of the comments that I have seen posted by users are saying that they have also changed their password for Twitter just to be on the safe side.