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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 ...
If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated.
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]
Security guru Leigh-Anne Galloway has discovered that Myspace's account recovery site only validates your real name, user name and birthday. Given that the first two are easily obtainable, you ...
According to a New York Times article in October 1985, “Lord Flathead,” was the leader of an early black-hat hacker group when he was 14 years old. In July and August 1985, between his ...
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 ...
In May 2016, an unprecedented series of very large data breaches that dated back several years were all released in a short timespan. These breaches included 360 million Myspace accounts from circa 2009, 164 million LinkedIn accounts from 2012, 65 million Tumblr accounts from early 2013, and 40 million accounts from adult dating service Fling.com.
To access this tool, go to your Yahoo My Account Overview or click on the icon with your initial next to the email icon on the top right corner, and click on “Manage your account.”. Accessing ...