You-Tubers beware!!!
YouTube is truly the most popular service for sharing and uploading video from people throughout the world. It has become a way of life for some people as they spend hours and hours on channels viewing videos ranging for funny clips to those showing high school students beating up and bullying other kids.
Since this craze has been spreading among the Internet users like an epidemic, some people have been devising ways of using this to their advantage, and these people have alternative motives than to just share a visually appealing video clip.
Yes I am talking about the black hat hackers once again exploiting something that people use because they simply can. Security experts say that those video files that you view can be booby trapped.
A fake video file containing the Zlob Trojan has been planted on the video-sharing site. If selected, the Trojan bombards infected users with ads. It might also be used to upload other forms of malware onto compromised PCs. - The Register
The black hats being one step ahead of the security professionals are not something new. And the key is knowledge and the effective channels by which they freely share information. However, even when there are people willing to give warning about such vulnerabilities and bugs that can be exploited, these services such as Google/YouTube don't pay serious attention or give them enough credit.
There were reports on a white hat who was expressing his frustration when Google / YouTube
developers didn't give any response for his reported security issues in their site.
But ultimately they responded and admitting to 40 plus vulnerabilities that this guy uncovered that could seriously jeopardise the users of the YouTube service.
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1 comment:
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Great work. Keep it up ;-)
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