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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
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 ]
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.
In 2013, Myspace relaunched with the goal of becoming a destination for discovering and sharing new music, watching videos and having fans and artists interact. Justin even dropped a new single ...
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.
The MySpace Movie, also known as Myspace: the movie, is a 2006 short film and viral video. Its name refers to Myspace , the social networking website , which it parodies. Two years later, a new video by Lehre was released, but instead of Myspace, focused on Facebook .
Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site, active from 2008 to 2012. [1] Similar to Facebook Platform and MySpaceID, it allowed users to build a profile to share and update information through messaging, photographs and video content via third-party sites which acted as a host for profile sharing and social exchanges.
A few weeks ago, a report claimed that based on viral growth models Facebook could lose 80% of its users by 2017. This was quickly debunked by Facebook itself. Now, a new report and scientific ...