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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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:
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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Operation MySpays – Phished Accounts INDEXED!
Last month, I wrote about Operation MySpays Exposed and today I’m writing about Phished Accounts by Operation MySpays.
For those who don’t know about Operation MySpays, well in short it is the widest and most successful (in a bad way) phishing project ever done to a social networking site, MySpace.com.
Today, while I was making a few research about operation myspays, I found several sites and URLs that are publicly revealing phished myspace accounts passwords. A quick search at Google for the term “operation myspays” can lead you to the sites.
Some of the data are packed in an archive and are freely available for download at MediaFire (and the download link is still live!). There is also a site which has indexed almost 5 THOUSAND PHISHED MYSPACE ACCOUNTS. And all these are publicly and freely available. A lot of people already know about Operation MySpays and it’s a surprise that Google is not de-indexing and banning sites that publicly gives phished accounts data.
As I’m writing this post I’m also in the process of contacting Google to remove those websites from their index.
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