Time Lord  Posts: 10147 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2352 Joined: 14 Jan 2008     | "social hacking"? whats next "social pirating"? i swear kids find new and innovative ways to commit crimes en masse. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4000 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  | Honestly, who has hacked someone's myspace in revenge? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 136 Joined: 31 Mar 2009     | To some people that is like social murder I regular a site where hacking is a big deal, because we are all big anime geeks there. |
Muckraker  Posts: 257 Joined: 1 Mar 2009     | 30%? That's a statistic the researcher made up. There is no way 30% of internet users under 18 are asked to hack someone. |
On the Record  Posts: 5035 Joined: 2 Nov 2007    | Yeah, I seriously doubt that high number as well. That's almost one third - impossible. |
Muckraker Posts: 248 Joined: 4 Nov 2008  |
Seriously? Who hasn't? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4644 Joined: 15 Jun 2008   | I am sure this research is flawed... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1495 Joined: 18 Jun 2008     |
He says 30% were TEMPTED to do it, which is a bit more believable. Frankly, I'm surprised kids nowadays would posses enough logic to do such a task. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1664 Joined: 15 Oct 2008    |
Isn't that just the pirate party. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 203 Joined: 6 Jan 2009  | Load of shit. That's all I can say. That entire study is completely worthless and will be forgotten within a week, if that long. |
Nobel Laureate  Posts: 16158 Joined: 26 Dec 2008   |
4chan? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4000 Joined: 7 Nov 2007 |
Nah, they do it for fun. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2823 Joined: 7 May 2008    | Every girl I know just loves to "hack" Bebo profiles. My sister actualy attempted to teach me how to fuck with Bebo and see deleted messages, but I was beyond uninterested. |
Nobel Laureate Posts: 16158 Joined: 26 Dec 2008 |
Or if you hurt cats. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 707 Joined: 21 Mar 2009   | who actually inputs their real info into the net? i mean ive heard all sort of crazy stories about students & even cops getting in trouble because of posting stuff on myspace/facebook/etc.. but i mean, seriously; what % of profile info is real? probably something like 3% |
On the Record  Posts: 5956 Joined: 7 Mar 2008    |
on facebook and such, probly 97% of the info is correct, a LOT of ppl put their real info in there
actually "social engineering" is as older than cracking itself, it's been used by investigators and such for many years. it's probly the easiest way to get somoene's password, i've always said i can guess passwords in about 20 questions that is if they don't use password or variations there of for their password |
Muckraker  Posts: 261 Joined: 23 Nov 2007   | Terrible pun... :P |
BANNED  Posts: 552 Joined: 9 Dec 2008  |
Why bother? The fact that they have a myspace page is, to me, punishment enough... User was banned for: Archie Andrews Chooses a Bride!. (Permanent) |
On the Record  Posts: 7221 Joined: 31 Dec 2008   |
Hahhaha |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3607 Joined: 8 Dec 2007  | Innovation, Watson, innovation! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 771 Joined: 19 Jan 2009  |
Some time back in high school, my friend did it to somebody's page who was kind of a dick to everybody. It was hilarious. Once he figured out what was going on, he sent out the most horribly punctuated bulletin I've ever seen in ALL CAPS in an attempt to sound threatening. Good times, those were. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 352 Joined: 17 Mar 2008  |
I'd enojoy social pirating, if I was on a boat with T-PAIN. |
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"Social Hackers" On The Rise
According to Trend Micro, an internet security firm, more than 40% of teens are "social hackers".
The idea of a hacker as being a solitary geek in their parents' basement has long been pushed to one side, but the new generation of hackers probably wouldn't know a shell script from a sea shell.
The "new" idea of "social hacking" is that many social details are on view via social networking sites such as Facebook. A competent social hacker can find information which tends to give away security question answers. So that rather than rummaging through dustbins for passwords, social hackers simply rely on their Google-Fu.
According to the survey undertaken by Trend Micro, thirty percent of 12 to 18 year olds have also been tempted to socially hack for money, and some have even been approached by cyber-criminals. (They're the one's carrying the hard drive marked Swag, by the way.)
The "social hackers" are still split by gender though. Boys are twice as likely to go for the profile assassination, while girls are three times more likely to go straight for the PayPal.
Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro said, "It's the online version of kids breaking into school to change their reports, it's just so much easier now."
It does sort of take the fun out of sneaking into school in the middle of the night, though. Allegedly.
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