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Fake YouTube Site Serving Flash Exploits

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2008-06-12 07:12:58 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...YouTube site happens to be a bit more interesting than it seems at the first place Clicking on that link then redirects to a different site, youtube-s, which serves exploits to attempt to infect your system. Then, if your browser hasnt completely crashed at that point, you may ultimately get redirected to the real YouTube, displaying some...
 
Tags: site, fake youtube site, flash exploit loads, flash exploit, mdac, ubiquitous mdac exploit, exploit, malware, real youtube site
 
 
 
 
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YouTube hijacked by Pakistan, caused global outage!

2008-02-25 03:10:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
YouTube has been blocked by Pakistan's government because it contained blasphemous content, videos and documents". Shortly after, Pakistan shutdown YouTube globally by (possibly accidentally) hijacking their IP space via BGP
 
Tags: youtube, pakistan, pakistan shutdown youtube, blasphemous content, government, bgp, documents, space, possibly
 
 
 
 
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YouTube outage underscores big Internet problem

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts
 
Tags: internet, inadvertent disruption, day lead, google, sunday, flaw, design, experts, security
 
 
 
 
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Google News, YouTube blocked in China amid Tibet riots

2008-03-17 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Chinese authorities have blocked Google News and YouTube in China amid protests in Tibet
 
Tags: google news, china amid protests, youtube, tibet, chinese authorities
 
 
 
 
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Removing hard drive data -- the YouTube way

2008-04-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5cc8c in Network World on Security
 
With stories surfacing on news channels regularly about lost or stolen data or the ability to recover data from discarded or resold computers and their hard drives, Computerworld decided to look at some cheap methods of removing that sensitive data from your hard drive permanently. And, what better place to look than YouTube
 
Tags: data, hard, recover data, hard drive permanently, sensitive data, news channels regularly, youtube, cheap methods, resold computers
 
 
 
 
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Harvesting YouTube Usernames for Spamming

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2008-05-07 03:21:17 by HASH0x8afedf0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...YouTube user names, spammers continue trying to demonstrate their interest in establishing as many contact points with potential receipts of their message, or even malware given the harvested user names database ends up in someone else's hands Building such "hitlists" of end points to be spammed, or served malware, is setting up the...
 
Tags: database, user names database, malware campaigns, malware, names, direct applicability, potential receipts, low degree, malicious parties
 
 
 
 
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YouTube declines request to remove terrorist-produced videos

2008-05-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1af3c in Network World on Security
 
YouTube has refused a request from U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) to remove all videos sponsored by terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, contending that most of them don't violate its community guidelines
 
Tags: videos, remove, youtube, joe lieberman, terrorist organizations, community guidelines, al-qaeda, id-conn
 
 
 
 
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Viacom's Statement on YouTube User Data Controversy

2008-07-04 23:30:20 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
It is unfortunate that we have been compelled to go to court ...YouTube and Google have put us in this position by continuing to defend their illegal and irresponsible conduct and profiting from copyright infringement, when they could be implementing the safe and legal user generated content experience they promise
 
Tags: irresponsible conduct, copyright infringement, youtube, content experience, legal user, safe, google, court, illegal
 
 
 
 
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Saving NGO Security Scenario Videos

2008-04-05 22:22:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...YouTube video clip to get you thinking about various safety and security situations Time commitments are going to decrease the frequency of future scenario posts, but in the meantime I want to show you how you can save scenario videos to your PC. These videos are great for classroom training or presentations. Just load them onto a laptop...
 
Tags: videos, youtube video, youtube video url, scenario, save youtube videos, youtube video clip, video, save scenario videos, weekly scenario