Why is it that a 17 year old can cause a hacker attack on entire social networking site and not have to face any type of ramification for his actions? Strange much? Well this is what happened earlier this week on Twitter when Pearce Delphin, a seventeen year old school boy from Australia, decided to tweet a piece of "mouse over" JavaScript code. This particular type of code brings up a pop-up window when the user hover their cursors over the message. Soon after he tweeted a few other hackers used the code to redirect users to pornographic sites and create worm tweets that replicated every time they were read and eventually lead to the White House Press Secretary’s feed getting hacked into causing his page to tweet things he never personally tweeted.ahhhhh!!!
1. Australia?? forget National Security we need the an International Internet Police.
2. Why was it so easy for him to simply tweet some Html code (No longer than the required 140 limit to tweet of course)and cause such mayhem?
3. The company seems to feel as thought they are the ONLY ones to blame...why?
I find it ironic that in a society that is so concerned with enhancing security whether it’s national or financial, someone can come along and trespass a personal boundary such as a twitter account and not be held accountable for it. They can also infringe upon the security of another company’s website gaining access to the company’s 145 million registered users and their personal information. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe this kind of matter should not be taken as lightly as it has been. Apparently not to the rest of the world, Twitter claims they will make an effort to revamp and create a more secure website. Rather than taking measures against the culprit that will hold him accountable for his so-called prank. People are taking risks everyday by using technology in attempt to take full advantage of the evolving tools around them that will help facilitate their lives. I believe that it is also time to create and enforce proper security measurements that help reassure these people that whoever tries to threaten their privacy will be dealt with accordingly. The fact that hackers can get away with infringing the personal security of such a vast amount of people and an entire website as a whole is a bit hard to digest. Especially since there are no real "boundaries", we are globally connected to each other via software running on computer's all around the world how do we deal with securing our traveling pieces of personal information??? That however is another topic, I will leave you there until the next post :)
Aisha
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100922/tc_afp/australiausitcomputersecurityinternettwitter
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