Indeed, a team of researchers at the University of Foreth-ICS and the Infocomm Research Institute have developed a small ploy to demonstrate the potential dangerousness of applications running on the network. Researchers have voluntarily placed malicious code on the application in question in order to generate queries and saturate an HTTP server. With each click of a mouse, the application returned a petition of 600 kb on the server. The team announced that the code could largely be developed with JavaScript automating these queries at regular intervals.
The mass adoption community networks by Internet offers us a unique opportunity to study the vulnerabilities exploited to transform these venues platforms antisocial activities and illegal attacks such as denial of service, proliferation of malware, spam or violation of privacy. "You can read the full report of this study here
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