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MySpace Hosting MySpace Phishing Profiles

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2008-05-05 02:29:00 by HASH0x8adc538 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...myspace phishing attack that I assessed in November, 2007, was particularly interesting to discuss because of its internal spamming structure - a social networking account that's already been phished is used to disseminate the phishing urls to all of its friends, collecting accounting data and serving malware The phishing tactic that I'll...
 
Tags: myspace, phishers, phishers shift, myspace phishers, authentic myspace, scale myspace, profile, natural profile, fake profile
 
 
 
 
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Month Of MySpace Bugs

2007-03-20 22:46:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...MySpace Bugs . This should be interesting to keep an eye on. As they state, they are only picking on MySpace (they could have found similar problems in any of the poorly crafted social networking sites) because they are trying to get attention, MySpace is extremely popular to get them even more attention, and that MySpace is notoriously...
 
Tags: myspace bugs, myspace, myspace hack, hack, sounds pretty light, month, half goof, half public, notoriously dickish
 
 
 
 
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MySpace and U.S. Attorneys General Agree to Fight Sexual Predators

2008-01-17 13:12:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
MySpace has has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states -- Texas sat out -- to protect children from sexual predators on the site The attorneys general are all congratulating themselves, as is MySpace -- and there's a lot of commentary out there . To me, this all seems like much ado about nothing The measures -- details here...
 
Tags: myspace, child predators, stop child predators, attorneys, sexual predators, movie-plot threat, tiny handful, security theater, cognitive bias
 
 
 
 
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Another MySpace XSS Through an API

2008-01-21 16:24:14 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...MySpace using the mobile API . MySpace being plagued with XSS vulns is really nothing new, but this is actually pretty interesting to me because its the first time I can publically point to a place where the API is the conduit for the attack. Where youd normally be unable to enter JavaScript, on the mobile API the filters dont exist. Good for...
 
Tags: api, mobile api, myspace, xss, website, main website, mobile platform, rosario, rosario valotta
 
 
 
 
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Update on the MySpace Phishing Campaign

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2007-12-10 21:50:56 by HASH0x899feb4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...MySpace Phishing Attack which I covered in a previous post, have recently changed the main login redirector from 319303.cn/login.php to z8atr.cn/login.php , and the attached z8atr.cn's fast-flux can be greatly compared to that of Storm Worm's fast-flux networks in terms of its size. The updated campaign is also taking advantage of the...
 
Tags: myspace, fast-flux networks, fast-flux, attack vectors include, campaign, server, attack, exploit content results, primary infection vectors
 
 
 
 
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MySpace Phishers Now Targeting Facebook

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2008-01-07 19:20:52 by HASH0x898bea0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...MySpace phishing attack which I briefly assessed in previous posts seem to have started targeting Facebook as well. Ryan Singel comments , and quotes me in a related article Hackers for the first time are targeting the popular social networking site Facebook with a phishing scam that harvests users' login details and passwords. Some Facebook...
 
Tags: facebook, site facebook, facebook users, genuine facebook link, login details, login, myspace, facebook-login, malware
 
 
 
 
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MySpace, states team up for children's safety

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b82cb0 in Network World on Security
 
An agreement between MySpace and most U.S. state attorneys general will significantly increase the safety of minors on the popular social network and boost the ability of police to catch and prosecute sexual predators who use the Web, said MySpace and several participating attorneys general Monday
 
Tags: myspace, prosecute sexual predators, popular social network, attorneys, safety, significantly increase, boost, police, monday
 
 
 
 
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MySpace Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs

2008-01-18 23:50:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A backdoor in MySpace's architecture allows anyone who's interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles -- including those under 16 -- despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be seen by people on a user's friends list
 
Tags: myspace, friends list, backdoor, photographs, users, assurances, architecture, people, user
 
 
 
 
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Pranksters Fighting for MySpace Page of Woman at Center of Spitzer Scandal

2008-03-13 19:30:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The MySpace address formerly occupied by the 22-year-old alleged call girl passes through dozens of hands after she cancels her account, as MySpace struggles to keep up
 
Tags: call girl passes, myspace address, myspace struggles, dozens, account, cancels, hands, 22-year-old