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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...
Jun 1, 2016 · 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, once the largest social networking site, experienced a massive data breach that came to light in 2016. The breach itself reportedly occurred years earlier, around 2013, but its full extent only became widely known when stolen data was found being offered for sale on dark web marketplaces.
Feb 7, 2017 · As reported in USA Today at the time of the Myspace breach, the data was limited to usernames, passwords and email addresses from the platform prior to June 11, 2013, when the site was...
- Ryan Francis
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...
- Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
The Vulnerability Index – Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) was originally developed as a pre-screening tool that more quickly assessed client vulnerability where communities lacked the time or resources to conduct a full SPDAT assessment for every client.
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A persistent XSS vulnerability can be transformed into an XSS worm (like it happened with the Samy XSS worm that affected Myspace several years ago). Overview of Blind Cross-site Scripting. Blind XSS vulnerabilities are a variant of persistent XSS vulnerabilities. They occur when the attacker input is saved by the web server and executed as a ...
