F.T.C. Goes After Alleged MySpace Hijackers
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to require an alleged Web page hijacking operation to obey previous orders barring unfair and deceptive practices.
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How to hand over the details MySpace this week asked a Pennsylvania state court for advice on how it could hand over information about registered sex offenders without breaking US data protection and privacy laws.â¦
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Blog: In what appears to be the first case of its kind, federal agents sent spyware called "CIPAV" to the owner of a MySpace account tied to e-mail bomb threats against a high school.
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Two New York teenagers were in police custody Wednesday facing illegal computer access and attempted extortion charges after they allegedly threatened to shake down the popular Web site MySpace.com unless its operators paid them &#36;150,000, prosecutors said.
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Malware installed by fake MySpace navigation bars has infected several thousand PCs, according to the SANS Institute.
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The social-networking site MySpace.com has donated technology it helped develop to identify and block sexual predators from online communities.
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A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to MySpace.com in a probe stemming from the suicide of a Missouri teenager who received cruel messages on the networking site that turned out to be a hoax, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Parole violations Just weeks after social network MySpace asked for advice on how to legally hand over information about sex offenders using its pages, law enforcement authorities have started to make arrests.â¦
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked a federal court to require an alleged Web page hijacking operation to obey previous orders barring unfair and deceptive practices.
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MySpace this week is testing a system that uses fingerprinting tech from Audible Magic to spot and prevent uploading of unauthorized video under copyright protection.
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(InfoWorld) - Phishers have been using compromised MySpace.com accounts to attack unsuspecting Web surfers, security experts said Thursday. The attack is thought to have infected several thousand PCs according to reports from ISPs, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute. Ullrich has documented the issue on the SANS Internet Storm Center blog. Lawrence Baldwin, chief forensics officer with security vendor MyNetWatchman, discovered the threat Tuesday, and The Washington Post reported on it late Wednesday. Criminals have managed to install fake navigation bars on the top of MySpace.com user profile pages that, when clicked, lead to malicious computers that attempt to infect the victim's computer. The attack uses several known Internet Explorer flaws that have been fixed, so users who have installed the latest Microsoft patches are not at risk, security experts said. The code was installed on "maybe a few dozen," MySpace.com pages, most of which have been removed by administrators at the social-networking site, Ullrich said. MySpace.com representatives did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday. Two components comprise the attack. It attempts to install malicious botnet software on victims' computers, and it uses these infected computers to try to steal MySpace credentials in a phishing attack. Computers that are compromised by the attack become infected with malicious botnet software known as "flux bot," which makes them unwitting participants in the phishing scam. After the malicious Web site attempts to install the flux bot code, it then presents victims with a fake MySpace.com login page, which tries to extract their MySpace.com user name and password. Baldwin allowed one of his test computers to be infected with flux bot and found that attackers were remarkably successful at stealing passwords. "I operated as a flux node for about 12 hours and did a full audit of all the traffic coming into my machine. I was probably getting close to 60 MySpace users an hour surfing to my flux node. And at least a quarter of those actually gave up their credentials." Baldwin estimates that the attackers were using another 200 compromised flux bot machines in their attack. Because MySpace.com allows users to install their own HTML code and isÂ visited by such a large number of technically unsophisticated users, it has becomeÂ an attractive target for these types of attacks. Last December, hackers created a worm that quickly spread across MySpace.com, stealing user names and passwords. That worm exploited a flaw in Apple's QuickTime media player.
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TechWeb - The popular social networking site is taking steps to protect its young users.
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Authorities are searching for whoever posted a long list and description of supposed sexual encounters between dozens of high school students on the online networking site MySpace.com.
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By BILLY PATERSON CLAIMS that teen bullies are using an internet chat site to terrorise victims and identify targets are being probed by police.
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Under mounting public pressure, MySpace.com had little choice but to hand over to state authorities information on registered sex offenders who might cruise the Internet to lure unsuspecting youngsters.  But more remains to be done to protect the vulnerable from online predators.
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said yesterday that it would release information on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the social-networking Web site.
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MySpace is asking a court for guidance on how it can provide authorities with the private e-mails of convicted sex offenders.