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MySpace reacts to latest security problems

July 22, 2006

BBC News website By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent “This is a criminal act,” said Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace chief security officer. “This ad is being delivered by ad networks who distribute these ads to over a thousand sites across the Internet in addition to ours.” “We are working to have these ad networks remove this ad [...]

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MySpace in news again

July 21, 2006

Washington Post Security Fix Brian Krebs writes Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions [...]

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Myspace.com hijack

July 17, 2006

blog.spywareguide.com Posted on July 17, 2006 Paperghost writes: Now, there is talk of an exploit that relies on redirects via Flash, meaning the hacker has complete control over your profile. You can see the ripples being made here on Digg – should be interesting to see if Myspace put out some kind of “official response” [...]

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MySpace

July 14, 2006

Online social networking site MySpace.com appears to have become a target of adware/spyware makers. MySpaceBar Installed From DollarRevenue via Regifast! 13 July 2006 WebHelper writes: MySpace again being used by yet another adware group called Regifast.com. While rechecking a Dollarrevenue bundled installer for the Regifast.com adware: content.dollarrevenue.com/regifast.exe, I found it not only bundles Deskwizz in [...]

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Children & Safe Surfing

June 7, 2006

McAfee Avert Labs Blog Security and Children’s Web Sites Tuesday May 30, 2006 at 3:48 pm CST Posted by Jimmy Kuo Late last year, I was asked in an interview where I thought the arena of online attacks would go. My response was to look at children-friendly sites and games like Neopets, MapleStory, and Runescape. [...]

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