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Oct 4, 2015 · It was around midnight on October 4, 2005, in Los Angeles, when Samy Kamkar, then a 19-year-old hacker, released what has come to be known as the "Samy worm," perhaps the fastest-spreading ...
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Aug 24, 2023 · Attack: Samy Kamkar, a dedicated security researcher, uncovered a vulnerability on MySpace that enabled him to unleash a self-propagating worm named the “Samy Worm.”. This worm ingeniously ...
Jul 18, 2017 · The first two of these can be found through the Myspace profile page; finding a date of birth for an individual is difficult but not impossible. Being able to access an account that isn't yours ...
Jun 1, 2016 · Myspace has revealed in an official announcement that it was the victim of a major data breach. The incident took place a few years ago and is thought to have affected close to 360 million accounts. Myspace’s technical security team confirmed that information that was being offered on an online forum is genuine. Myspace, which is a Time […]
Samy (computer worm) 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]
While the specific technical vulnerabilities exploited in the MySpace breach have not been publicly detailed, it is clear that the attackers were able to bypass MySpace's security measures to access the database containing user information.
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