Comments for Denial-of-Service Attack Against Facebook

Comment from Mv on 2013-01-11

2013-01-11T07:57:42Z

relevant. Elvis is alive!
http://www.isxdead.com/person/10783/...

Comment from Andre DeMarre on 2013-01-10

2013-01-11T00:11:30Z

This isn't new:
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2011/03/...

Two years ago internet security researcher Robert Hansen, aka RSnake, announced he would leave the web app sec research scene and stop blogging. His peers performed this same attack to "memorialize" his Facebook persona.

Comment from J. on 2013-01-10

2013-01-10T09:30:17Z

I hope they have safeguards against repeated attacks.

Comment from wiredog on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T18:57:34Z

Given that Rusty hardly ever posts to his own website, it was probably easy to fake his death.

Comment from Dave on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T18:34:29Z

There's a flip side too, a Facebook user who was a personal friend died (at a tragically young age) and the reminders from FB were upsetting to some. That issue was resolved, though. All-in-all there's a balance and I think social media are useful even if not ideal.
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Dave

Comment from Rusty on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T17:09:06Z

All the experimental indications are that you only need an obit with a vaguely similar name. No need to fake, just google. Maybe they'll tighten it a bit now, but it appears this has been an open issue since at least 2009.

Comment from cassiel on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T16:49:00Z

Another technique, reported a week or two ago, is to create a new Facebook group, add the intended target as administrator, and then post material which contravenes Facebook's terms and conditions. Voila: all administrative accounts for the group are disabled.

Comment from brown on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T15:27:56Z

@Hugo:

Your web site also thinks Gordon Brown is dead: http://www.isxdead.com/person/18016/...

Comment from stvs on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T15:09:36Z

Someone has to post it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8mNjeuyV4

Comment from Jacson Querubin on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T13:39:45Z

I hope people discover that's all this "social" sites is just a waste of time... go live..
=)

they live?

Comment from Hugo on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T13:19:41Z

Looks like you're probably still alive.

http://www.isxdead.com/person/15176/...

Comment from Halo on 2013-01-09

2013-01-09T12:50:41Z

Or find someone with an identical name to that on an actual obituary.