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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] The worm itself was ...
Oct 4, 2015 · October 4, 2015, 9:00am. Snap. Samy didn't want to be everyone's hero. He didn't even want new friends. But thanks to a few clever lines of code, in less than a day, he became the "hero," and a ...
- Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Aug 24, 2023 · Date: October 2005. 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 ...
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 […]
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.
The coming months will be crucial for some of the most vulnerable countries in the world. From May 27 to May 30, the international community will gather in Antigua and Barbuda for the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). UN Secretary-General António Guterres has set the bar high: “Small island states do not ...
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) [1] is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. [2] One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. [3]
