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Turning Facebook Users into Hackers - without them knowing
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|  | Some researchers found out that seemingly harmless Facebook applications can cause big harm to businesses or internet providers. In an experiment they created a Facebook application: Photo of the Day, that without advertising, about 1,000 people installed in their profile. The secret: Every time the application would load, it would target a 600KB stream from a specified web address. While one stream is harmless, once hundreds of thousands of users do this they cause the web server of the targeted website to break down - this is called a Denial-of Service attack.
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The team of researchers concluded: ‘ If those traffic figures were applied to Facebook applications that have a million or more users, they estimated a victim‘s Web site could be bombarded by as much as 23 M bits per second of traffic, or 248 G bytes of unwanted data per day.‘
The word of caution here to Facebook, Myspace or other social network users: downloading these applications may turn you into a hacker, spammer or terrorist. So only use trusted or recommended (certified) applications.
Via: Network World |
| Posted: 09/15/2008
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