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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 299 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: myspace readies developer web site comments Discuss  
MySpace will open the doors of its developer Web site on Tuesday and make available there the necessary tools to build applications for the world's most popular social-networking site. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 282 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: hackers exploiting facebook myspace plugins comments Discuss  
If you use Internet Explorer (versions 6 or 7) to browse the Web, listen up: Criminals are starting to exploit security holes in several widely installed IE plug-ins to plant invasive software when users are coerced or tricked into visiting one of several Web sites. In an alert posted Friday evening, security software vendor Symantec said it is seeing malicious Web sites popping up trying to exploit vulnerabilities in a set of ActiveX controls produced...Please click on the title to continue reading this e read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 242 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: myspace profile trickery comments Discuss  
Websense Security Labs has started seeing more spam bots on MySpace using increasingly clever techniques. Websense Labs reported a MySpace profile hack (New MySpace Link Hack in Use) previously. A new twist has appeared in these socially-engineered profile tricks that could be used for malicious purposes.The profiles are created in such a way that they hide all of the real MySpace profile areas. The profile displays an image served from another location as an input type=image. This old trick has been read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 228 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: myspace hack reveals profile visitors comments Discuss  
A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 227 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: myspace profile hack early warning predators comments Discuss  
Unplugged 'system error'A security issue on MySpace may put a spanner in the works of law-enforcement efforts to track miscreants using the social networking site.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 216 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: myspace wins lawsuit spamford wallace comments Discuss  
Serial nuisance fails to defend caseMySpace has won a lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford (Spamford) Wallace. The social networking website gained a default judgment against Wallace after he failed to turn over documents or appear in court, CNet reports.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 201 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: myspace wins record m judgement spammers comments Discuss  
'Spamford' Wallace hauled over the coalsMySpace has won a $230 million anti-spam judgment against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines. US District Judge Audrey Collins made the order - reckoned to be the largest ever in an anti-spam case - after the duo failed to appear in court.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 199 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: myspace fraudster indicted teens suicide comments Discuss  
Cyber-bully 2.0A 49-year-old Missouri mother has been indicted for fraudulently using MySpace to "cyber-bully" a teenage girl who committed suicide after she was tricked into believing she was being dumped by her online boyfriend.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 193 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: myspace hit application spam comments Discuss  
Like Facebook before it, MySpace is having to take corrective steps to curb spam from applications built by external developers using its new application development platform. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 179 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn privacy flaw exposes paris hilton lindsay lohans private myspace photos comments Discuss  
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1244By Dancho DanchevZero DayJune 4th, 2008The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with otherParis Hilton and Lindsay Lohan’s private MySpace photos community and social networking sites across the Web, has just suffered its first major privacy flaw exposing the private photos of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, prompting Yahoo and MySpace to disable the data availability between the services until they read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 167 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: myspace wins m judgment spam king comments Discuss  
Junk mail menace cannedSelf-styled former spam king Scott Richter has been ordered to pay MySpace $6m over allegations he blitzed users of the social networking website with junk mail messages sent from hijacked accounts.… read more »
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