“Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!” – Privacy Failure of Photobucket Can Make You a Porn Star! August 13, 2012
Posted by Chris Mark in cybersecurity, Data Breach.Tags: cybercrime, cybersecurity, data breach, fuscking, mark consulting group, Photobucket, privacy, security
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For those who like to use the popular photo sharing site Photobucket to share (ahem)..”private” pictures may want to take action immediately. According to an article on CNN, a privacy flaw in the way Photobucket allows users to share photos resulted in hackers gaining access to numerous R rated and even explicit photos of users. Photobucket allows users to share photos using direct links. This means that even if the user does not intend to share a photo, if a person can deduce the URL then the unencrypted file can be directly accessed. This is a hack known as “Fuscking” and it has been used to access numerous files. (more…)
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