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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
Then, in 2016, Specific Media was acquired by Time, Inc. Not long after, news broke that there was a huge hack that compromised over 400 million Myspace passwords.Time, Inc. was then bought by ...
Anderson's father was an entrepreneur. [5] As a teenager at San Pasqual High in Escondido, California, Anderson was a computer hacker under the pseudonym "Lord Flathead" (friends with Bill Landreth), and prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid after he hacked into a computer system at Chase Manhattan Bank.
Make a note about how to confirm it in the block log or on its talk page. HTTP proxies are typically open for shorter periods of time. The usual causes are a misconfigured caching proxy, or a trojan/virus, and they get cleaned up eventually. HTTP proxies are also more likely to be dynamic IP addresses, typically home users.
In 2005, Kamkar released the Samy worm, the first publicly released self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, onto MySpace. [10] The worm carried a payload that would display the string "but most of all, Samy is my hero" on a victim's profile and cause the victim to unknowingly send a friend request to Kamkar.
HTTP proxy: James Marshall: free: Turns a computer into a personal, encrypted proxy server capable of retrieving and displaying web pages to users of the server. CGIProxy is the engine used by many other circumvention systems. Flash proxy [46] HTTP proxy: Stanford University: free: Uses ephemeral browser-based proxy relays to connect to the Tor ...
An anonymizer or an anonymous proxy is a tool that attempts to make activity on the Internet untraceable. It is a proxy server computer that acts as an intermediary and privacy shield between a client computer and the rest of the Internet .
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.