Hacking MySpace

After attending a lecture about Internet security and finding the 5 minutes they spent on password security interesting (and then researching it a bit more) I thought that it might be useful to go through some points on password security here.

In a recent feature release from Myspace they unveiled their phone verification system to get rid of the CAPTCHA’s on their site.

Over the past week or so I have been asked by quite a few people how the new profile 2.0 has increased privacy/security settings and how to set them up. This is something that can benefit a lot of people by me explaining it, so I decided I would today.

Myspace have recently re-vamped their old profile look into a clean, customizable, “web 2.0″ style in their efforts to keep the website’s modern, hip kind of feel to attract more of their biggest market (teenagers).

Over the past week or so I have had a few people ask me this question on Myspace and I thought that it would be a good idea for me to explain the possible reasons why Myspace convert all links (that link to anywhere other than Myspace’s site) to msplinks.

Over the years Myspace has added a number of features to their website to help protect all their users privacy to an extent online, especially people under 18. In this post I will have a look at what these features are and also tell you a few things you can do yourself to increase your privacy which I hope will help.

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.