Hackers hit YouTube over the weekend, injecting pop-ups, disabling comments and redirecting viewers to porn sites when they tried to access videos. Google clamped down on the problem swiftly and is attempting to figure out who was behind the attack. The hack followed the online publication of a YouTube HTML code injection exploit. The hackers used a cross-site scripting attack on YouTube. This is a technique that injects code into a user’s browser instance.
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Hackers Target YouTube With XXX XSS Attacks
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 6, 2010 12:18 PMHackers hit YouTube over the weekend, injecting pop-ups, disabling comments and redirecting viewers to porn sites when they tried to access videos. Google clamped down on the problem swiftly and is attempting to figure out who was behind the attack. The hack followed the online publication of a YouTube HTML code injection exploit. The hackers used a cross-site scripting attack on YouTube. This is a technique that injects code into a user’s browser instance.