Thirteen years after “Hack Heaven,” Stephen Glass’ fabricated feature about a lonely teenage hacker who was hired by a major software company, was published, the story has practically come true.
On Sunday we reported that Facebook hired 21-year-o…
7 Hackers Who Got Legit Jobs From Their Misdeeds
Facebook best at privacy of social sites: ranking
Despite Facebook’s ongoing public disputes over privacy , it gets a top, 4-star ranking for privacy issues from ZoneAlarm, which has ranked eight social networking sites in its infographic, “Which social networking site are secure?” LinkedIn rates the …
U.K. Man Arrested on Facebook Hacking Charges
A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested Thursday on charges that he tried to hack into the Facebook social-networking site.
LinkedIn slashes cookie lifespan after research exposes security flaws
Token gesture
LinkedIn said it would reduce the persistence of cookies it uses to identify users of the business-focused social networking site following the discovery of security issues with the site that create a possible means for fraudsters to hija…
Facebook Not Protecting Users Enough
Do you feel safe using Facebook? Given the social networking site’s incredible growth in previous years, that fact is Facebook is a goldmine for data theft and hackers.
One prominent security company says the site should do a whole lot more to protect…
Open Hacker Conference Badge Project Needs Your Help!
[Aestetix] writes in to tell us that the OpenAMD (Attendee Meta-Data) project is working on a new revision of their hardware, to be debuted at CCC Camp this fall. For the uninitiated, OpenAMD combines an Active RFID tracking system with social networking, and is completely open-source. You walk into the conference, put on the OpenAMD …
Facebook: We ban 20,000 children a day
If you’re under age 13, you’re “forbidden” from using Facebook. But of course, some kids 12 and younger do, and Facebook says every day it removes 20,000 under-age visitors from the site.
Hard to know whether that’s the tip of the iceberg, or the cras…
Facebook douses virtualisation
Facebook refuses to employ virtualisation across its infrastructure, because the technology does not scale efficiently, the director of the social networking site’s labs division has said.
The social network shies away from abstracting its technology…
Spurned lover is first person jailed for stalking by blog
Stephen Andreassen, 38, compiled up to 35 website blogs in which he insulted Rebecca Pattinson after she ended their month-long relationship.
The couple met in 2006 through friends and began dating three years later when Miss Pattinson, went to see An…
XSS Vulnerabilities in Russian Social Networking Site ‘VKontakte’
A short while ago, I decided to prepare a presentation on web vulnerabilities and specifically on XSS attacks. This involved studying the way today’s filtration systems work.I selected the most popular Russian social networking website, VKontakte…
