Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App 116
narramissic writes "Back in January, a team of researchers uploaded a malicious program to Facebook to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications. Called 'Photo of the Day,' the app serves up a new National Geographic photo daily, but every time it's clicked it sends a 600 K-byte HTTP request for images to a victim's Web site. Photo of the Day is still listed on Facebook, with its authorship attributed to Andreas Makridakis, one of the researchers. The application has 514 active users now, with several comments praising it. The study was published by the Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion, Greece, and the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore."
This one's for Bugmenot! (Score:4, Funny)
Researchers! (Score:2, Funny)
"Here, grab your ankles, this won't hurt a little bit"
(That is a 100% truthful statement)
social networking considered harmful (Score:5, Funny)
Re:social networking considered harmful (Score:3, Funny)
Can I order hot pockets over the Internet?
Re:social networking considered harmful (Score:5, Funny)
The only safe place in the world is safe and sound all by your lonesome in your parents' basement.
Here in SA I've got 14cm hunter spiders in my parents basement! Seriously. These things have garden snakes for breakfast, so don't fucking tell me how safe my parents basement is - I only go in there with a team of sherpas and a pack of wolves.
On the plus side, we've very few snakes left.
Re:social networking considered harmful (Score:3, Funny)
Not my parents' basement... It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Re:I don't think I'm the first to say this but... (Score:4, Funny)
Good thing, then, that in reality, they're for the most part fun and useful!
Re:BFD(?) (Score:5, Funny)
more direct malicious app (Score:5, Funny)
Why not build a more aggressive app and call it something like "Facebook Botnet Webapp Client 2.04.2" and then reward people minion points for delivered spam, DDoS attack packets, and friend referrals. No need to hide it as a beneficial application, people want to belong to something--why else are they on facebook?
Re:social networking considered harmful (Score:1, Funny)
The only safe place in the world is safe and sound all by your lonesome in your parents' basement.
Radon. Carbon Monoxide. Mr. Muggles.
Nope, you're fucked.
Oh that's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
I used to serve a 2mb file of zeros at favicon.ico. I even used a bogus MIME type to give MSIE a fighting chance. Of course MSIE ignored the MIME type and charged ahead anyway.
Re:social networking considered harmful (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a basement, it's a command centre
Re:social networking considered harmful (Score:5, Funny)
There's a guy a few posts up with some hunter spiders that will take care of that grue for you.
Re:BFD(?) (Score:5, Funny)
You should have linked to Idle, now that's malicious.
Doesn't work. (Score:3, Funny)
Mod the main article down. It is redundant. (Score:5, Funny)
They built a malicious face book application. Big deal. They're all malicious and annoying. The whole damn site is a marketing work to pull personal data about interconnected relationships together for marketing.
"Malicious Facebook App" is like "Table Mesa" (a place in Arizona). Its redundant Mesa means Table in Spanish.
Re:I don't think I'm the first to say this but... (Score:1, Funny)
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?