09 February 2012

Website Vulnerabilities Found

A 15-year-old teenager named Cim Stordal from Norway has managed to find vulnerabilities in website and software owned by facebook, google, apple and microsoft. This teen has a hobby of tinkering with HTML and managed to find security holes in four giant companies.But it is not used for activities that harm, but just the opposite, namely to remind the company further improve the security of the site.

The findings were brought into the google Stordal Security Hall of Fame, as ell as the White Hats' Facebook Security, and believed to be the Apple of the reporting of potential safety issues, while also being selected as Stordal microsoft security researcher.

Facebook of White Hat, Stordal get a card visa elite White Hat filled with money of 500 dollars. Stordal also get a card self-persistent XSS (Cross-site scripting flaw) of facebook and non-persistent XSS of Google, Microsoft and also from Apple.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerabilities that have been found in web applications. XSS allows hackers to inject scripts that are already available.

Stordal start looking for vulnerabilities in software at the age of 14 years and has mastered programming in C++. He wanted to do something new and examining the knowledge base. One day he wanted to be a vulnerability researcher software used by millions of people worldwide.

Stordal are high school students who spend time after school to play video game Team Fortress with his friends. He also worked part-time fish shop in Bergen.

"I just tried to log into a site and try to insert HTML code into your web site and there's no filter of the source code is available. I find facebook security holes four days, in google within 3 days, the apple in just 5 minutes. Stordal said.

Although it has been credited with Stordak activity was not approved by both parents to always be in front of the computer. "They do no like me continue to be in front of the computer, because they not know what I'm doing. He said.

2 comments:

  1. Blognya masih sangat sederhana sekali. saran saya ide awal coba kunjungi btemplate (cari di google) lalu ubah templatenya. setelah diubah, berikutnya daftarkan di alexa, web master tools. mungkin itu duluh ntar jika sudah ada beberapa saran lain. tapi step by step dulu

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