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Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting 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 message on a victim's profile
The social networking service Myspace was among the most popular web sites in the 2000s decade. It has faced criticism on a variety of fronts, including for a massive redesign of the site in 2012 which occurred after the majority of original users had abandoned the website, misuse of the platform for cyber-bullying and harassment, risks for users' privacy, and major data losses.
Well, a lot of factors pushed Myspace off the front page of the internet: rising competition, a buggy website, an annoying user experience, heavy spending and legal battles. Keep reading (and ...
When a user viewed that profile, they would have the payload planted on their page. Within just 20 hours [11] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload, [12] making it the fastest spreading virus of all time. [4] The MySpace team temporarily shut down MySpace to fix the problem that allowed the worm to operate.
Instagram has a new feature where you can add a song to play at the top of your profile. Like, you know …. Myspace. The feature was announced on Thursday and will be used by Sabrina Carpenter to ...
Oh, braces, how I don't miss you. And this could actually be the first ever selfie in the world - thanks, little brother. Yes, I dug up old Myspace photos, but for a lot of users, Myspace is doing ...
The "Location" profile field was sanitized when included in the title of a profile page but not within the actual field in the page's body. This meant that the authors of the worm, in order to achieve stealth to boost the lifetime and spread of the worm, had to automatically remove the XSS payload from the title of the page from within the worm ...
The user then enters their information to log on, at which point Tinba can launch the bank webpage's "incorrect login information" return, and redirect the user to the real website. This is to trick the user into thinking they had entered the wrong information and proceed as normal, although now Tinba has captured the credentials and sent them ...