Social Networks hacking - maybe not the most technical skill you can learn from the street but definitely the one that will prove to be extremely useful today and in the future.
I’ve started my quest on social networks hacking back in the days when they first came out and I sort of knew that they are extremely bad idea from a security stand point. Up-to-date I am still hesitant to open or even be part of a social network unless it is unobtrusive and useful and never too personal. [...]
What will happen if someone impersonates you on a social network? Will that person be able to fool your friends and as such gain access to resources, which only you are entitled to? Or are social network protected enough to guarantee the credibility of the social participants. I don’t know, but join me in the brainstorming process in the following paragraphs.
I was asked to have a 30 minutes long introductionary presentation on client-side security issues. Although the presentation is very basic and high-level oriented, as it was designed to serve as an overview rather then as an in depth analysis, I thought that, still, someone may find it useful or may use it in their own works.
The PDF, PPT and ODT files are attached at the bottom. Let me know if it works for you.