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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MySpace Can Drain Your Time AND Money!

Let's face it, MySpace can be a very addictive web page to get stuck in. This hot social networking site is wildly popular among teens and adults alike but like all things good, there are crooks out there who want to target innocent MySpace users and scam them.
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How to Protect your Kids from MySpace Dangers?

This is the most dangerous yet the most important fact that has raided the minds of the parents after the introduction of internet and sites like MySpace. Kids have easy accessibility to these sites but as they are vulnerable to internet abuses they should be monitored regularly by the parents but precaution must be taken by the parents that the kids do not feel that they are being watched or being spied upon.
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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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How Spammers Actually Create a Fake Myspace Profile

As the days goes by, spammers are constantly thingking of new ways to exploit MySpace for profits. Their tactics/techniques of profiting from MySpace has been closely guarded secret…not anymore! It seems like the guys at the SpywareGuide Blog has uncovered how fake profiles are created.

At the blog, they have included some really interesting screenshots showing how spammers harvest data and actually create a sophisticated fake MySpace profile with a few line of codes.

Take a look at the details HERE.

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