Security holes opens up Google
Posted on March 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm by Avatar

google1.jpgMySpace and FaceBook has again come under attack when hackers discovered a flaw in the uploading system for these mentioned social websites that resulted from buffer overflows which they use to obtain information. It is the simplicity of the design of these web sites that means they were designed to be so easy to use that one needs no special knowledge to gain access to them allowing ordinary people to use them. The hack is so elementary that analysts see attacks being done by not so expert hacker through a hacker root kit that can be downloaded over the internet from Chinese sites and it comes and several variants. The company who developed the upload system, Aurigma, has not provided proof of code auditing allowing such attacks to happen leaving many users vulnerable to attack.

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