Social-Networking
Tiananmen Square continues to bleed hope for freedom of speech
“internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – EFF co-founder John Gilmore
2005, Yahoo provides information that helped Chinese officials convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets. Apparently, Shi Tao, a 37-year-old writer for the Dangdai Shang Bao, released a “state secret” which contained a message to Shi’s newspaper warning journalists of the [...]
Twitter Web Worm Causes Havoc
Update: Apparently a bunch of variant worms are doing the rounds that circumvent Twitter’s recent patch to fix the problem. I’d be cautious using Twitter over the next couple weeks, see protection guidelines below or at this link.
Teen exploits Twitter
A 17 year-old has claimed credit for releasing a Cross Site Scripting worm that infected hundreds [...]
Facebook Faces Big Brother Monitoring
Millions of Britons who use social networking sites could be having their accounts “secretly” monitored in the near future.
Kelly was responding to a speech made by Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker on 18 March at a meeting of the House of Commons Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee. Coaker said the EU Data Retention Directive, which [...]
Twitter Vulnerability History
More and more bloggers are using Twitter as a micro-blog service. In Twitter’s words:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Its interesting to me to compare vulnerabilities discovered in different web 2.0 frameworks. Can [...]
Twitter gets hacked with poor passwords
Last week wired reported Twitter users falling prey to a password brute force attack. Yes you read correctly, a password brute force attack.
Wired:
An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday’s hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama’s, and the official feed for Fox News.
The hacker, who goes [...]
