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Google fixes YouTube xxx spam flaw

Mike Halsey MVP — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:00:46 +0000

YouTube owner Google has been forced to act quickly to fix a flaw on it’s YouTube video sharing website that allowed hackers to bombard users with pop-up messages, redirecting them to adult websites.

The code was placed in the comments section of targeted videos and would run automatically when people watched the clip.

Google says the problem was fixed within only two hours of being reported, according to the BBC.

“We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on youtube.com,” a spokesperson said.
“Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour, and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours.

Hackers had used JavaScript and HTML code to trigger the malicious pop-ups.

“The thing with a cross-site scripting attack is that it will appear that it is a message being posted by that website, which gives it a certain legitimacy, Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos told BBC News.
“It could be used to show a message that tells you to update your password; it could link to a malicious website; or it could attempt to phish you.”

For now YouTube is back to it’s old self and if you’re visiting the site in the next week I thoroughly recommend you click on the football icon during playing videos to add an authentic Vuvuzela soundtrack.

Web 2.0 goes Porn

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:45:08 +0000

Please be advised that the following paragraphs contain links to websites with explicit content. If you feel offended by it or are not of legal age you should skip this article completely. User generated content is in my opinion the number one argument why Web 2.0 sites are that successful. It does not matter if you take a look at Youtube, Twitter or Myspace to realize that they would not be that successful if it were not for the users that would feed them with new content.

Over the past year several web 2.0 porn sites, lets call them social porn sites – emerged and became incredibly successful over a short period of time. Even censorship like the removal of the successful site Youporn from Google’s index could not stop the rise of a site that is currently placed 85th in Alexas ranking. Remember, a site with no help from Google makes it under the top 100 sites worldwide sitting there in front of Apple Inc. for instance which got a rank of 90.

Megarotic, another of those sites is just one place behind currently placed 86th in Alexa.

Youporn (Alexa:85, Pagerank 4)

Megarotic (Alexa: 86, Pagerank 5)

Pornotube (Alexa:198, Pagerank 5)

Xtube (Alexa: 326, Pagerank 4)

Redtube (Alexa: 528, Pagerank 0)

Yuvutu (Alexa:583, Pagerank 3)

Fantasti.cc (Alexa: 31722, Pagerank 2)

Nipplebyte (Alexa 117385, Pagerank 4)

Only X-Rated (Alexa: 118291, Pagerank 0)

X-Digg (Alexa: 422190, Pagerank 0)

Emergency Porn (Alexa: 559306, Pagerank 3)

Sin 2.0 (Alexa: 1279022, Pagerank 0)

How to Porn Surf, Safely

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:50:27 +0000

I was not sure if I should post a link to a story that describes who to porn surf safely. Not many people would openly admit that they are surfing on porn sites and not many will ask for help if they encounter difficulties while doing this. There´s always been good and bad sex sites out there security wise. The bad ones bombard you with popups, dialers, trojans and the like while the good ones behave like every other website out there.

The article from tinynibbles.com tries to explain many of the bad things that can happen while surfing the internet. (not only while looking at sex sites, other sites use many of those methods as well).