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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
Spacehey was created in 2020 by 18-year-old German web developer Anton Röhm. [5] [6] Röhm stated that he never personally used MySpace at its peak, due to the fact that he was too young at the time, but added, "Thanks to older friends and the internet, I heard a lot about it.
Well, your profile page was like an expression of your total personality. People chatted on forums, listened to music, published emo blog posts and even dressed it all up in a sparkly “layout ...
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 ]
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 ...
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.
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.