Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Samy (computer worm) Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm ( XSS 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]
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) [1] is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. [2] One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. [3]
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]
Within a year, over 5 million people signed up for Myspace. And by 2006, 90 million signed up—surpassing Google and Yahoo as the most visited website in the U.S. In August of that year, the unit ...
In fact, web apps are the majority on MySpace with 12 spots on this list including Bumper Stickers in the number 3 spot with 12.8 million users and Own Your Friends in fourth place with 10.3 ...
XSS worm. An XSS worm, sometimes referred to as a cross site scripting virus, [1] is a malicious (or sometimes non-malicious) payload, usually written in JavaScript, that breaches browser security to propagate among visitors of a website in the attempt to progressively infect other visitors. [2] They were first mentioned in 2002 in relation to ...
While 2008 saw a monthly increase of about 718,000 users between November and December for the top game, 2009 has a much lower number of about 91,000, which shows how MySpace's user base has ...
SpaceHey. SpaceHey is an English-language online social network operated by the German company tibush GmbH and headquartered in Pfullingen. [1] [2] Founded in 2020 by Anton Röhm, the project serves as a homage to social media platform MySpace during its peak in the mid-2000s. [3] [4] However, it is not officially affiliated with MySpace.