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Twingate Team. •. Mar 21, 2024. 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.
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 ...
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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]
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 17, 2017 · Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway notified Myspace about the flaw in April, and published details about it on Monday after failing to receive a substantive response. The problem stems from ...
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 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]
