Apparently, while we were all worrying about the onmouseover Twitter hack spitting out pr0n and the Facebook hack making users post out of character updates. (OMG OMG OMG) There was a proper hack underway that was affecting major websites in a big way. Not this one, thankfully.

My web host assures me that the overnight outage on Sciencetext was due only to their upgrading their systems to protect their hosted sites from the risk. So, apologies if you visited and didn’t get to see my techie words of wisdom during the last few hours. If anyone has any detailed information the spread of this new hack, do let use know

Meanwhile, Twitter published an explanation of their problems and pointed out that the security flaw was a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, which means that you should’ve been safe if you were browsing the site with NoScript enabled in Firefox as that addon prevents such click-jacking exploits.