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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
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.
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 ...
Often, these worms are specific to a single web site, spreading quickly by exploiting specific vulnerabilities. Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities are commonly exploited in the form of worms on popular social or commercial websites, such as MySpace, Yahoo!, Orkut, Justin.tv, Facebook and Twitter. These worms can be used for malicious intent ...
It was announced that Myspace lost 12 years worth of content in a server migration gone wrong. So that meant any songs, photos and videos uploaded to the site between 2003-2015 were straight up ...
From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world. [5] [6] In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million; [7] in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. [8] [9] During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $800 million in revenue. [10]
RockYou was a company that developed widgets for MySpace and implemented applications for various social networks and Facebook. Since 2014, it has engaged primarily in the purchases of rights to classic video games; it incorporates in-game ads and re-distributes the games.
Brad Greenspan after five years of college earned a University of California Los Angeles Political Science undergraduate degree. During his junior year he earned a finders fee for matching electric automobile battery company Electrosource, Inc. with Liviakis Financial an investor relations firm helping the tiny publicly traded Austin, Texas based startup raise needed additional financing.