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Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm ( XSS worm) that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar. Within just 20 hours [ 1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [ 2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time. [ 3] The worm itself ...
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) [ 1] is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. [ 2] One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. [ 3]
Myspace also confirmed that the hack is being attributed to the Russian cyberhacker who goes by the name “Peace.”. This is the same person responsible for the LinkedIn and Tumblr attacks, too ...
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided: a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, Punter, and a basic set of ...
Time Inc. only got the keys to Myspace.com a few months ago, but it's already having to confirm some bad news: the social network has been the target of a hack. In a press release, the company ...
The US Department of Transportation has laid out a plan to deploy vehicle-to-everything tech across the country. The aim is to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on America's roadways.
Then, in 2016, Specific Media was acquired by Time, Inc. Not long after, news broke that there was a huge hack that compromised over 400 million Myspace passwords. Time, Inc. was then bought by ...
In the last 24 hours there has been a sudden surge in the amount of spam being sent and received by MySpace users, suggesting that the site has fallen prey to a security exploit that grants ...