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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.
Max Levchin's Slide acquired the application and its creators in 2007, with the application growing to become one of Facebook's most popular applications in terms of monthly active users. [2] The application mimicked Facebook's own " poke " feature, adding new actions like smiles, winks, slaps, and “smacking” Facebook friends.
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. When a user viewed that profile ...
Just in time to witness MySpace's unfortunate demise in the light of Facebook's success, MySpace's reign was short. Founded in 2003, it surged to become the world's most visited social-networking ...
Within a matter of months, Facebook took Myspace’s title as the biggest social network in the world. In Facebook’s early years, Myspace actually had the opportunity to buy Facebook for $75 ...
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. [ 2 ]
Source: Cult of Mac. MySpace's reign was short. Founded in 2003, it surged to become the world's most visited social-networking site. Just in time to witness MySpace's unfortunate demise in the ...
In the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" department, MySpace launched a feature that lets users import interests from their Facebook profiles to give MySpace pages a broader stream of ...