hi, what social network websites are you using? Can someone recommmend a good one for me?
The lastest news reported:
cnet:
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into elements of a botnet that in a demonstration launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server.
"Social Network Web sites have the ideal properties to become attack platforms," according to a paper entitled "Antisocial Networks:Turning a Social Network into a Botnet," that was authored by five researchers from the Institute of Computer Science in Greece and one from the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore.
The researchers also suggested that Facebook and other social networks be careful in designing their platform and application programming interfaces (APIs). I think the reason why the design and programming of the social networks allow a lots of attacks is that its desogners had no experience in programming and secruity.
What do you think of this?