Hacking MySpace

As more and more people start to use social networking sites like MySpace, more and more personal information is making its way online.

It never ceases to amaze me how devious scammers can be. What about this Zango Cash Toolbar scam recently discovered on MySpace by Websense Security Labs?

How would you feel if details of a rape in which were a victim appeared on a MySpace profile with the aim of intimidating you? Or how about if an unidentified stranger set up a profile stating that you and your chidlren were trash?

With more and more libraries, schools and businesses, blocking MySpace, what’s a MySpace junkie to do? Well there are ways of accessing MySpace on computers where it is blocked, but beware, it could be extremely dangerous.

Wired reporter Kevin Poulsen’s coding skills have led to the arrest of sexual deviant Andrew Lubrano.

Lubrano’s MySpace profile

Criminals are using the MySpace brand name in emails to hundreds of thousands of computer users in an attempt to get them to reveal their credit card details, according to a report in SC magazine.

MySpace has launched an Internet safety campaign, designed, not surprisingly, to protect teenagers from predators, and help parents and educators keep kids safe from MySpace badies.

A couple of days ago I reported on what appeared to be a MySpace security hoax, where Internet reports were claiming that a UK student, Kieran Senior, had stumbled across a problem with MySpace’s password system.