About This Site
Social Hacking is the official weblog of a particular amateur white-hat hacker, known as “theharmonyguy,” who writes primarily about security and privacy issues in social networking applications.
Select Press Coverage
- First OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes (TechCrunch)
- Google’s OpenSocial Could Invite Trouble (Forbes.com)
- The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and security (ZDNet)
- Many Facebook apps lack simple security checks (Inside Facebook)
- Social Me is Back, Privacy Still Vulnerable (AllFacebook)
- Facebook Hacked Again (ReadWriteWeb)
- Does That Facebook App Have a Privacy Policy? Probably Not. (NYTimes.com)
- Researcher Launches Facebook Bug Project For September (DarkReading)
- Month of Facebook flaws gets underway (The Register)
- How Safe Are Facebook Applications? (NYTimes.com)
- Best of Application Security (Friday, Oct. 30) (Jeremiah Grossman)
- Fifteen significant social media & security events of 2009 (ZDNet)
- Facebook changes to its application platform could lead to security nightmare as users’ email addresses will be collected and stored (SC Magazine UK)
