About This Site

Social Hacking is the weblog of Joey Tyson, a security researcher widely known as “theharmonyguy.” The site primarily covers privacy and security issues in online social networking applications. All of the views expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author and do not reflect on the views of any other organizations 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)
• 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)
• How a Simple URL Hack Can Expose Your Gmail Address (Lifehacker)