Social Networks

What’s behind that short URL?

There was a good post over at ThreatChaos the other day about a new Firefox extension which will automatically show you the real URL’s of shortened URL’s. What is URL shortening? For example…this long URL: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=washington+dc&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=38.905996,-77.023773&spn=0.25915,0.439453&z=11&g=washington+dc&iwloc=addr becomes… http://tinyurl.com/9lum95 By using a service like Tinyurl or one of the many other sites available you can easily

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Tom joins the Blogsecurify team!

I am excited to announce that I am now part of the GNUCITIZEN Blogsecurify social media “tiger team”. I am officially a blogger for Blogsecurify and will be posting about security issues/vulnerabilities in social media applications. As you may already know, I have been doing a lot of research recently into Facebook privacy and security.

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Dangerous MySpace Spam

I have been doing lots of research over the last few months on online social networking sites to prepare for an upcoming talk that I am going to be giving on the latest threats to social networks…in particular MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. Tonight I received new friend request from someone named “Elysabeth” in my email.

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