Showing posts with label Justin Bieber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justin Bieber. Show all posts
Monday, August 2, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
YouTube hacked because of Justin Bieber: It's your fault!
On Independence Day YouTube has become the target of a hacker attack, specifically targeting videos of the new american pop singer Justin Bieber. It sounds like Bieber fever is getting dangerous!
Shortly after the incident Google explained the situation in the folowing statement:
“We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on youtube.com that was discovered several hours ago. Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour, and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We’re continuing to study the vulnerability to help prevent similar issues in the future.”
A Google representative said the hackers couldn't have the access to Google accounts of YouTube visitors who encountered a hacked page. But it would be better for them to log out of their Google accounts and then log back in.
Google disabled comments within an hour of the start of the attack, then corrected the exploited bug within two hours, according to a statement sent to The Next Web.
The hackers are members of the Internet community 4chan, which has been waging a small cultural war against Justin Bieber.
Source:
http://it.moldova.org/news/youtube-hacked-because-of-justin-bieber-its-your-fault-210645-eng.html
Shortly after the incident Google explained the situation in the folowing statement:
“We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on youtube.com that was discovered several hours ago. Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour, and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We’re continuing to study the vulnerability to help prevent similar issues in the future.”
A Google representative said the hackers couldn't have the access to Google accounts of YouTube visitors who encountered a hacked page. But it would be better for them to log out of their Google accounts and then log back in.
Google disabled comments within an hour of the start of the attack, then corrected the exploited bug within two hours, according to a statement sent to The Next Web.
The hackers are members of the Internet community 4chan, which has been waging a small cultural war against Justin Bieber.
Source:
http://it.moldova.org/news/youtube-hacked-because-of-justin-bieber-its-your-fault-210645-eng.html
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