Hacking MySpace

Finally, MySpace is getting serious about dealing with the problem of adults using MySpace to find and groom minors for sex.

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.

It’s no secret that employers are now screening job candidates by googling them. Which means you might not get a job if you’ve posted something compromising about yourself on MySpace (or anywhere else), and forgotten about it, or if someone else has posted something unpleasant about you.

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.