Web 2.0 security is getting important..

A nice article introducing you to the importance of Web 2.0 security. Programmers tend to get awed by the Web 2.0 features, focus just on the final output and don’t pay enough attention to Security. Kang Meng Chow writes,

“As the Web continues to evolve, the perpetrators of cybercrimes have also been skilled at capitalizing from any lack of security, or opportunity for exploitation of vulnerabilities amongst the new interactive Web applications, and insecure client systems. One recent development in this area is a form of “SPAM 2.0”, known as “Splogging” or Spam Blogs, in which the perpetrator made use of blogs (that they set up) to simultaneously provide link to the spammers’ contents, and popular web pages to increase their ratings in search engine indexing, known as search engine poisoning. When a user searches for a keyword, the search engine’s results will include a number of Spam Blogs that have been indexed, which would then serve as “doorway” to the spammers’ contents [1].”