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Sep15
nComN Launches, Site Begs To Be Hacked
I got the press release on the new site nComn (not sure if those capitalizations are perfect or not) and, for some reason, I checked it out.  When I got there I noticed an iPod giveaway, and like the easily bought person that I am, I surfed over to find out the rules.  At the bottom of the page there was a link that said 'click to edit page'.  Surely that wasn't a way to edit the actual page? 

Imagine my surprise when I was taken to a WYSIWYG blog-like editor.  Here's what now sits on the contest page:

ncomn's security oddity - click to enlarge

I started to be mean, it is in my nature, but I am restraining myself. 

However, there are plenty of users that would have lots of fun with this.  Imagine, you could invite people to connect on LinkedIN, spam your blog url or even place a contextual ad in there... 

Remember, it's naughty to take advantage of the weak.  ;)

4 Comments/Trackbacks




mwa ha ha ha

Now THAT is a "social riot" ...

Nice find, Robyn!

It's really crazy. I can't believe no one else has noticed this LOL

Guess that tells us the level of traffic they got today...

Thanks for helping us find that security glitch.

We are a fairly open system that requires users to login to contribute content. We do have content revision and history, so when people hacked our site we were easily able to go to the original version.

We did fix the hacks, some of them where pretty funny. Here is a few samples of the post-

"Here is a sample of some of the hacks-
you can just add text anywhere on the page? what prevents anyone from hacking the site?

dsdsd from socialriots.com

Is your web team being paid with Monopoly money?
wow!"

"NcomN's Popularity Contest. You could win a broken iPod Nano!"
(With a picture of a broken iPod) I laughed pretty hard when I seen this one.

"We Need a Slogan! 2006-09-15 15:07:07
NcomN is offering another chance for you to win a

FREE Broken iPod!!!!



All you have to do is sign up for our site and help us with a slogan (and site security)."


NcomN http://www.ncomn.com is still begging to be contributed and passed around. The hacks were entertaining we appreciate everyones help in fixing this.

Ha ha, good attitude about it. :)

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