Hacket writes virus to attack Orkut users

posted by   viveksridhar (41)   11 months ago (www.secguru.com)

Google’s Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hitby a relatively harmless worm, but one that demonstrated thecontinuing vulnerability of Web applications.

Some Orkut users received an e-mail telling them they had beensent a new scrapbook entry — a type of Orkut message — on theirprofile from another Orkut user.

They only had to view their profile to become infected by theworm, wh