Social Networking at Black Hat ‘06
Black Hat and Defcon 2006: Security Fix Heads to Vegas:
Security Fix is headed to Las Vegas for the better part of the next week to cover two back-to-back hacker conferences. The first is Black Hat USA 2006, which runs Wednesday and Thursday and caters to security professionals and researchers whose bosses can afford to foot the $1,200 to $1,600 registration fees. The other is Defcon, 72 straight hours of presentations and non-stop hacker fun starting Friday morning.
Also at Black Hat ‘06, Dan Moniz and HD Moore will be showing how common cross-site scripting flaws in popular social networking sites like Myspace.com and Xanga.com could be combined with Web browser vulnerabilities to power an Internet worm capable of infecting millions of users in a very short time frame. Whether their demo goes off without a hitch is of little concern, as their concept is ripe for exploitation (cross-site scripting flaws are ubiquitous on most major Web sites, and new browser flaws are discovered every day).
Why do I get the feeling that MySpace is going to crash hard in the next few days. Which is ok by me, it means more traffic for me. :-)
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1 opinion for Social Networking at Black Hat ‘06
Ashley
Aug 2, 2006 at 10:00 am
Oh no that means everybody is gonna think it is the end of the world again. I don’t know if I am ready for this. Hehehe :-D ;-)
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