How To Avoid From Having Your MySpace Account Phished

We all know the consequences of having your MySpace account phished. Identity theft is a very serious offence and such scams are plaguing MySpace users all across the world. Such malicious practices can cause loss of information including login and passwords as well as credit card information. Read more

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Signs Your MySpace Account Has Been Phished

Phishing is a malicious act whereby links are created under the guise of reputable sites, and once clicked these links will glean crucial information from MySpace users. Take heed of warning signs that your account is being compromised and hopefully you can avoid being victims of such scams! Read more

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Digital Knights To The Rescue

For those not in the know, Digital Knights is a special program that was conceived by Aluria in collaboration with the US Secret Service in order to counter the barrage of MySpace scams that are reported to trick naive individuals each day. Read more

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Check Scam Links for Clues

Receiving tons of MySpace messages from both your contacts and total strangers alike is commonplace once you login to this social networking site. However, some scammers in the World Wide Web have taken to devising ways to trick innocent users. They do this by sending messages disguising themselves as the user’s friend.
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The Dark Side of MySpace

It’s also worth pointing out that there is a dark side to MySpace, and it’s not something that affects just MySpace: It’s something that affects all social networking sites. Bad people are just as good at using computers as good people. In fact, the anonymity of the Internet is an attraction for all kinds of deviants and practical jokers, who use forums such as MySpace to deceive people for their own amusement or for personal gain.

Any woman who places an even slightly revealing or provocative picture of herself on MySpace will be inundated with comments from men of all ages, many of whom are not shy about expressing the kind of relationship they are looking for. So yes, there is a sleazy side to social networking sites.
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MySpace Worm – The Popular Guy Hack

Have you heard of the famous “popular guy” hack, also known as the Samy Worm? If not, this will be an interesting read

Written by MySpace member Samy, the “popular guy” hack was actually a worm designed to make Samy the most popular guy on MySpace. Whenever someone viewed Samy’s profile, that person automatically made Samy their friend — without their permission. This was interesting enough, but Samy decided to go further. He created a hack where anyone who viewed a profile where Samy was already a friend also automatically made Samy a friend on their profile. So, if ten people viewed Samy’s profile, Samy would have ten new friends. If 10 people viewed the profiles of each of these new friends, Samy would have an additional 100 friends, and so on.
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Myspace: Who Is Watching The Detectives?

It’s well known that law enforcement, security researchers and groups that track down / remove pedophiles, trolls and crapflooders from Myspace spend a lot of time networking, watching profiles, tracking dubious individuals through their postings, friends lists and other things too numerous to mention.

It’s a tricky business, and can potentially place people like myself at great risk of being found out, exposed or run over the coals if one of these bad guys works out you’ve been trailing them for the past three months.

What happens, though, when the bad guys have a method to know exactly who is watching them? And what are the consequences?

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Critical MySpace Image Uploader Flaw

I’ve just found out from eWeek Security Watch that security experts has discovered a serious flaw with the MySpace Image Upload (Facebook Image Uploader is also affected).

A warning issued by the Threat Analyst Team of Symantec’s DeepSight stated than a buffer overflow in the ‘Action” property of a few ActiveX controls used in the MySpace (and Facebook) image uploader can be exploited by anyone who has a malicious intent. This critical vulnerability could allow hackers to use specially designed and booby-trapped webpages to compromise any machine using the Windows operating system.

Currently only Windows/Internet Explorer users are under threat and to prevent your machine from being hijacked, it is recommended to use an alternative web browser such as Firefox, Opera or any other web browser that does not support ActiveX controls.

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MySpace External Link Warning

If you remember…last year on the month of July, MySpace officially started to convert external links on all myspace profiles and comments to redirect to their link filter site msplinks.com. They did this so that they can cut down spam and have better tracking of what kind of links are placed on profiles and comments.

On Mashable it seems that they have caught a discussion where some webmasters was confronted with a warning splash page for ‘bling’ sites. This may be an indicator that MySpace is upgrading msplinks.com system so that you can actually see what site are you actually being redirected before you get redirected.

Here is a screenshot of what the warning splash page allegedly looks like:
MySpace External Link Warning Splash Page

I have tested on some of my friends profile and I haven’t been able to re-produce the warning page.

More on this at >> MySpace Adding a Warning Splash Page to External Links?

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MySpace Flaw Leaks Private Teen Photos

There is no doubt that MySpace dominates the social networking industry and there are also the most popular in the industry…..popular for the weakest security.

Recently, a backdoor exploit in MySpace allows anyone to have access of photos/pictures in profiles that are set to private. MySpace has been assuring it’s members that only those who are authorized are allowed to access the private photos but it seems that every time they close a backdoor, another one comes up. It has been going on for months (since last year).

The latest backdoor exploit news has been rapidly circulating on their message boards and a massive 17 GigaByte (GB) file that contains more than 500 thousand private images has been circulating in BitTorrent and Warez Forum…making this the biggest security breach ever!

There are several articles mentioning this exploits/breaches:
http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2008/01/myspaces-data-disaster.html
http://volkdefense.com/?p=132

Read up those articles for more details and here’s a word of advice:

Don’t put photos that you don’t want other people to see on MySpace or any other Social Networking site…even if you plan to set your profile to private that does not mean you’re safe!

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