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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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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 ...
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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]
Jul 17, 2017 · Around 360 million accounts were compromised in June 2013, but Myspace said in 2016 when it disclosed the incident that it was taking action to shore up its security. Which would be great, except ...
Jun 29, 2020 · It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed. Myspace was sold to NewsCorp in 2005 for $580m (£437m) but, after gradually losing users over the years, was bought for $35m in ...
Oct 25, 2006 · The hacker who exposed the latest MySpace vulnerability did so because he needed a zero-day to qualify for a special hacker team. Kuza55, who released proof-of-concept code on a zero-day ...
Jul 19, 2017 · In the U.S., MySpace was pulling in more than 72 million unique visitors every month. Facebook lagged way behind at just 23 million. Just four years later things had taken a dramatic turn ...
