About This Site
Social Hacking is the weblog of Joey Tyson, a security engineer at Gemini Security Solutions widely known as “theharmonyguy,” primarily covering privacy and security issues in online social networking applications. All of the views and opinions expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author and do not reflect on the views or opinions of any other organization, including Gemini Security Solutions, in any way.
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)
- Does That Facebook App Have a Privacy Policy? Probably Not. (ReadWriteWeb/NYTimes.com)
- Researcher Launches Facebook Bug Project For September (DarkReading)
- Month of Facebook flaws gets underway (The Register)
- How Safe Are Facebook Applications? (ReadWriteWeb/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)
- How a Simple URL Hack Can Expose Your Gmail Address (Lifehacker)
- Webscape on city re-design and online ID protection (BBC News)
- Researcher Uncovers (Another) Major Facebook Security Exploit (TechCrunch)
- Facebook in new privacy row (Telegraph.co.uk)
- Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook (Gizmodo)
- 4 things Facebook doesn’t tell you about your privacy and security (CSO Online)
- Four short links: 13 May 2010 (O’Reilly Radar)
- Facebook simplifies privacy controls (SC Magazine)
- Web Watchdogs Dig for Privacy Flaws, Bark Loud (The Wall Street Journal)
