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Hackers: Beware of Social Networking Sites
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by gmony714 | August 6, 2007 at 04:21 am
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With over 100 million members logged on Myspace alone, personal information has never been more vulnerable. Hackers are sifting thru millions of private accounts as we keep giving them more and more ways to infilttrate our lives. From kids to musicians to prowlers, it is only going to get easier for computer terrorists to steal your identity and burn your hard drives. Are politicians thinking about regulating? Are our enemies overseas looking for vulnerabilites?
Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals.The flaws are being demonstrated this week at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, which draw thousands of people to Las Vegas each year for five days of training and demonstrations of the latest exploits.
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at 07:50 on August 6th, 2007
beware what you share.... -> Good stuff.
at 07:58 on August 6th, 2007
thanks rick
at 14:39 on August 6th, 2007
It is frightening what you can find out about a particular person, even if you're not even hacking a site.
at 14:53 on August 6th, 2007
thanks k
at 15:46 on August 6th, 2007
gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff.