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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
If one is drastically different from the others, remove it and change your password. Be aware that there are some legitimate reasons why your history can show unfamiliar locations, such as your mobile device detecting the wrong location or Internet provider using a proxy server.
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 a land where MySpace is second fiddle to Facebook, so is Zynga to Playdom in a strangely mirroring way with its hit game Mafia Wars (13.4 million players) beat out by its direct competitor ...
Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites such as Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.