Crackers attack Facebook and MySpace

Fortify Software security company says that social web sites like MySpace and Facebook are at the moment best targets for crackers. Main reason is that sites are also for less advanced users who can easily click a bad link.

- Buffer overrun in Aurigma ActiveX picture upload software gives attacker a chance to get to uploaders computers, says Rob Rachwald from Fortify.

This software is used in both Facebook and MySpace.

Buffer overrun exploiting tool is easily available in web and can be used without a great technical knowledge.

That's why Rachwald states that MySpace and Facebook should have made Aurigma to check program code before they started to use it.

Source: vnunet