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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
July 6: Bohmini.A is a configurable remote access tool or trojan that exploits security flaws in Adobe Flash 9.0.115 with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 under Windows XP SP2. [48] July 31: The Koobface computer worm targets users of Facebook and Myspace. New variants constantly appear. [49]
Lord Flathead Goes Too Far. Anderson, using the name Lord Flathead, was a computer hacker at least since he was 13 years old, which is just about the time the movie WarGames came out in theaters ...
Now, they can get an idea thanks to a new app called noplace, which recreates some aspects of Myspace more than a decade after its fall from the most-visited site in the US. The app officially ...