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privacy

Are You Sure You Want To Add That Facebook App?

Gregory writes in to point out that Facebook does a lousy job of monitoring the development of its third-party Platform applications—and in fact many of them are written so badly that they can be easily hacked. The examples he cites, which are listed in the winter issue of the hacker magazine 2600, are all fairly mild stunts like spoofing user IDs, changing the moods of another user, and re-routing gifts, "but this information could be used to mount large scale social engineering attacks if automated and coupled with other information." To illustrate how easy it is to change another user's settings, he pointed us to a YouTube example of how to change another users "mood" via the Mood app. More »

9:47 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Chris Walters
4,570 views, 11 comments

Latest by nidolke: If you sign up for any of their stupid applications, I can't feel bad when you get hacked. more »

videos

Hacking US Airways' Company Directory To Reach Lost And Found

Since US Airways Lost and Found number was nowhere to be found, and no one was picking up the direct line to their company switchboard, we decided to hack their company directory More »

5:26 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Ben Popken
3,448 views, 12 comments

comcast

AUDIO: Comcast Easily Tricked Into Giving Your Personal Info To Wiseass Teenagers

Here's a clip from the Cmd Radio show demonstrating how someone armed with only a phone number and address can social engineer your personal information out of Comcast. More »

7:54 PM on Wed Apr 11 2007
By Ben Popken
14,936 views, 28 comments

cingular

Cingular Wins 1.1mil from Data Mining Douchebags

From Law.com: More »