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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 ...
- Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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...
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Jun 29, 2020 · But buckle up millennials, because we’ve got some devastating news: Myspace has revealed that "any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago" may well have been wiped...
MySpace has since secured its site against the vulnerability. [1] Samy Kamkar, the author of the worm, was raided by the United States Secret Service and Electronic Crimes Task Force in 2006 for releasing the worm. [4] He entered a plea agreement on January 31, 2007 to a felony charge. [5]
The MySpace team temporarily shut down MySpace to fix the problem that allowed the worm to operate. In 2006, Kamkar was raided by the United States Secret Service and Electronic Crimes Task Force, expanded from the Patriot Act , for releasing the worm. [5]
- December 10, 1985 (age 37)
- Privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur
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Hacker Samy Kamkar speaks at the AusCERT conference on May 26, 2017. (Photo: Jeremy Kirk, ISMG) Samy Kamkar became nearly everyone's virtual friend in October 2005. No one knew him, of course. But ...
Jul 17, 2017 · Whoops! The Hack. 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...
