This morning I got an e-mail … the typical “[Person] suggested you like [Something]” from Facebook. Typically, this kind of stuff is SPAM; but I checked it out anyways. However, when I got to the page, I didn’t observe just spam; in fact, I observed a cunning exploitation which allows the page to run whatever Javascript code it wishes. It uses a combination of social engineering to prompt the user to perform actions to get a ‘reward’. In the process, the user inadvertently executes Javascript code in their browser.
Watch this video I recorded to see it live in action:
Posted by Brendon on December 21st, 2009 | 1 comment
A few days ago, I was thinking of ways to drive more traffic to 22Talk. Unlike my other websites, 22Talk’s traffic is more time dependent in that more than 1 user must be online at the same time for it to work at all (and lots more for it to work effectively). READ MORE