Saturday, September 06, 2008
Not so much fun on Facebook..... A Hackers Paradise.
Researchers work together, to prove how easy it is to create an application for mass hacking. According to an article on Wired.com researchers developed an easy way to get thousands, if not millions of people to join a simple application and download it to there computers; therefore allowing hackers to tap into the account every time one would log in. This may sound crazy and a tad bit scary, because requests for joining applications are always sent around, i doubt someone trying to hack into your account is even the bit least in anyone's mind... But extremely possible. The researchers did a "trial hack" just to see how many users would fall into the lure, and to there surprise over 1000 people added their application.
"The researchers chose to point the hidden attack at their own server, of course -- but were surprised that more than 1,000 Facebook users installed the application, even though they only mentioned it to friends.
That led to a peak of 300 requests per hour and on its peak day, the traffic went above 6 Mbits per second.
That's an impressive number for an application with only 1,000 users, using only the most basic attack."
Though one would think Facebook, was a highly monitored and safe website... like every other website, you never really know.
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An interesting news item. Start out your post with a clear description of the topic of the post and the source cited. Name the article and cite the source using a link.
You have raised a critical issue here. Social Networks want to remain open to outside input so they can harness the creativity of the users. Unfortunately that leads to less security. So we have a trade-off: security or creativity. What is the solution?
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You have raised a critical issue here. Social Networks want to remain open to outside input so they can harness the creativity of the users. Unfortunately that leads to less security. So we have a trade-off: security or creativity. What is the solution?
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